Jim;  Thanks for the example, that clarified things.  There are some
character encoding issues that we are looking into.  We will post when
to expect resolution.

-- Scott

On Jul 15, 9:24 am, James A Miller <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Scott,
>
> I'm still seeing the same problem.
>
> I opened pizza.owl in TBC, added a line to the rdfs:label for the American
> pizza, containing an Arabic word جيزان‎ {...@ar} .  I saved it, and ran the
> following query:
>
> SELECT *
> WHERE {
>     ?subject rdfs:label ?label
>
> }
>
> which gives me a set of results, including my (unchanged) Arabic label.
> Then I did Export Results to File, and entered pizza.xls as the name, and
> Tab-separated Spreadsheet as the type.
>
> The resultant file is attached.  I opened it several ways, and asked
> someone else to check it out.  As far as we can tell, it really has ??????
> in the place of the Arabic text.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> (Note for the Arabic-knowledgeable people out there--I realize this is not
> the name of a pizza, but that is not important for this problem...)
>
> Jim
>
> Scott Henninger <[email protected]>
> Sent by: [email protected]
> 07/14/2009 04:46 PM
> Please respond to
> [email protected]
>
> To
> TopBraid Composer Users <[email protected]>
> cc
>
> Subject
> [tbc-users] Re: Multilingual data in extracts (Replaces prior message with
> bad  Subject)
>
> <Sorry--forgot to change the earlier Subject-->
>
> (normally it is best to start a new thread - hijacked threads make it
> difficult to find past postings)
>
> There could be issues with your file or the program you are using to
> view the tab-delimited file?  As a test, open the pizza.owl file in
> TopBraid > Examples and enter the following query.
>
> SELECT *
> WHERE {
>     ?subject rdfs:subClassOf owl:Thing .
>     ?subject rdfs:label ?label
>
> }
>
> The query will find a number of Portuguese labels  The .txt file is
> generated as expected.  There aren't any special characters in this
> file, but if you add some, you will find that they display ok in
> editors that recognize the characters.
>
> You can try sending a sample and we'll look into it.
>
> -- Scott
>
> On Jul 14, 1:42 pm, James A Miller <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Sorry--forgot to change the earlier Subject--
>
> > Maybe I am expecting too much from Composer, but when I export the
> results
> > of a SPARQL query involving multilingual data, and I choose to save as
> > type "Tab-separated spreadsheet", my foreign-language data becomes a
> > series of question marks.  Should this work?  Am I omitting a step?
>  (When
> > I export as XML, and let Excel do spreadsheet conversion, it works OK
> (but
> > not in a preferred column/row format).  )
>
> > Jim
>
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>  pizza.xls
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