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.) -- gwern --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
