Or in this example and NOT all Unicode you could just At c: prompt type sms.xls > MyTxt.txt
It converts her example fine. Now to figure the rest! Sincerely, Paul D. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of MikeB Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 3:51 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Need help with an import filetype Karen, A unicode file uses Two Bytes per Character, so the phrase "Stay out of Karen's way" would look something like: "S t a y o u t o f K a r e n ' s w a y". I might be able to do this using DLCall and the MultiByteToWideChar Function.. I'll let you know. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 12:50 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Need help with an import filetype > I'm trying to import a file which was described to me as a "unicode text > file", although it is saved with an .xls extension. You can bring the > file > up in Excel (it uses a tab delimiter to do it) and re-save it as another > format, and that's what we've been doing. But they'd rather not have to > do > this. I am unable to find an import type that will bring this file in. > Ascii tab delimited doesn't work because it is not an ascii file. This is > the > client that's still in 6.5, but I can't find anything in 7.6 either. > > If anyone would like to give this a shot, email me privately and I can > ship > you the file. > > Karen >
