Hi Edward,
> You can tell Access about the encoding when you import a file. > > In Access 2000, open the File menu, and on the Get External Data submenu, > select Import. The file browser dialog box will open. The problem with this is that I cannot simply import the file, because I have structured text. The texts I'm working with are medieval portuguese dictionaries, following a dictionary structure, although a bit different one, and I need to recognize the different parts of the structure. That's why I'm using Perl - to parse the text. In the end the limitation of writing to the database from Perl in Unicode can be overcome if I don't encode the text files in Unicode and use the codes the original transcribers used to represent the required characters (for exemple, =i to represent an I with a tilde). I can transform the codes to Unicode chars in the database. I was looking for a more elegant solution, but if I can't find one I'll have to live with that. Thanks for your suggestion, though. Regards Rui Ribeiro
