On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 2:07 PM, American Swede <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to study Swedish and would LOVE to use this program,
> however the instructions point out that to create a compatible file
> for Mnemosyne that includes foreign characters from Word, one needs to
> "Save as" Unicode Text (UTF-8). However Word 2004 only has "Unicode
> Text (UTF-16)" as an option, which I've tried and does not work. I've
> also tried all the "Save As" formats from my version of Word 2004 and
> none of them work.
>
> I am running Mac OSX 10.5.8 and even tried saving from TextEdit and
> Exel 2004, which both also only have Unicode Text (UTF-16) as a Save
> option.
>
> I'm aware that the characters I need to use (ö ä å) work when you
> enter them directly in to Mnemosyne, but I REALLY need to be able to
> use a Text file to create my words. Mostly so I can share the list
> with a Flashcard program for my iPhone.
>
> So, is it really that hard to import foreign characters into
> Mnemosyne??? Is there something I'm missing? Will the next version
> include support for Unicode Text (UTF-16)?
>
> For now, is there a Mac program that can "Save As" Unicode Text
> (UTF-8)?
>
> Please Help!!!

Maybe you could google around for mac programs which can convert from
UTF-16 to UTF-8. I know many text editors like Emacs can do it easily,
and there's a standard Unix CLI tool 'iconv' which specialized in just
that. (Linuxes will have it; dunno about Macs.)

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