Re: Importing and export text with foreign accents

2006-03-06 Thread Mark Waddingham
Hi Derek, I'm having a little trouble importing a tab deliminted text file (saved from excel), having rev organize it, then saving it out as an xml file. The import and text manipulation works just fine, but when it comes time to export the data out to text files, all the foreign characters

Re: Importing and export text with foreign accents

2006-03-06 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Mark, Hi Derek, I'm having a little trouble importing a tab deliminted text file (saved from excel), having rev organize it, then saving it out as an xml file. The import and text manipulation works just fine, but when it comes time to export the data out to text files, all the foreign

Importing and export text with foreign accents

2006-03-03 Thread Derek Larsen
I'm having a little trouble importing a tab deliminted text file (saved from excel), having rev organize it, then saving it out as an xml file. The import and text manipulation works just fine, but when it comes time to export the data out to text files, all the foreign characters (accents,

Re: Importing and export text with foreign accents

2006-03-03 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Derek, Even if you are using diacritics, as they are called, there is no reason to use unicode. Only if the text you are exporting contains Arabic, Polish, Bulgarian etc characters, which are not in the ASCII character set, you might need to use unicode. Does your text contain characters

Re: Importing and export text with foreign accents

2006-03-03 Thread Charles Hartman
Is this really true? My impression is that characters 128 are different in the ASCII character sets on Mac and Windows. Charles On Mar 3, 2006, at 12:08 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi Derek, Even if you are using diacritics, as they are called, there is no reason to use unicode. Only if

Re: Importing and export text with foreign accents

2006-03-03 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Charles, You are right, but as I understand it from Derek's question, his text file is only an intermediate result for use on the same platform. Still, even if he is going to use the text on a different platform, while the text being plain ascii, htmlText or even a script to convert the