words with accents

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Castle,
      It appears that Leonid solved Fernanda's problem by rewriting  
the way in which CLAN opens and saves files on Windows.  He posted  
the repaired version of CLAN about two days ago.  Please get a new  
version of CLAN and then tell us if your problem goes away.

--Brian MacWhinney


On Feb 12, 2007, at 5:18 PM, Castle Sinicrope wrote:

> Dear CLAN community,
>
> I have also experienced similar problems with umlaut and double s  
> characters in my German data. These characters disappear in the  
> CLAN output window when I run freq or kwal. However, when I output  
> my results to a separate file and view the file outside CLAN, the  
> characters are present:
>
> Example kwal for Vereinigten Staaten
>
> 1. Output in CLAN window:
> *TXT:    Whrend der Grndung der Vereinigten Staaten war eine der grten
>      Probleme die Reprsentation der Staaten.
>
> 2. Output outside CLAN window (using Notepad):
> *TXT:    Während der Gründung der Vereinigten Staaten war eine  
> der größten
>     Probleme die Repräsentation der Staaten.
>
> I have encountered the same difficulty when converting plain text  
> (.txt) files to .cha files using the textin command. In the  
> converted .cha files, umlauts and the double s are missing. For  
> recent data, I have added these characters manually, and these  
> manually added characters do show up in the kwal results. Adding  
> manually, however, does not seem like the correct approach.
>
> If anyone has any suggestions or helpful hints, I would be very  
> grateful.
>
> Thank you for your time,
> Castle Sinicrope
>
>
> On 2/2/07, Fernanda Gonçalves <frg at uevora.pt> wrote:
> Dear Brian,
>
> I have a problem when running programs like freq or combo on my  
> files: the words that are written with accents ( like "está" or  
> "óculos") appear in the output files with those characters omitted  
> (like "est" or "culos").
> Can it be because I´m using the current version of CLAN and the  
> files were written with a previous version?
> With that previous version, it didn´t occur.
>
> Thank you for your attention.
>
> Best wishes.
>
> Fernanda Gonçalves
>

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