<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Castle,<DIV> 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. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>--Brian MacWhinney</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>On Feb 12, 2007, at 5:18 PM, Castle Sinicrope wrote:<DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Dear CLAN community, <BR><BR>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: <BR><BR>Example kwal for <SPAN style="font-style: italic;">Vereinigten Staaten<BR><BR><SPAN style="font-style: italic;"></SPAN></SPAN>1. Output in CLAN window:<BR>*TXT: Whrend der Grndung der Vereinigten Staaten war eine der grten <BR> Probleme die Reprsentation der Staaten.<BR><BR>2. Output outside CLAN window (using Notepad):<BR>*TXT: Während der Gründung der Vereinigten Staaten war eine der größten<BR> Probleme die Repräsentation der Staaten. <BR><BR>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. <BR><BR>If anyone has any suggestions or helpful hints, I would be very grateful. <BR><BR>Thank you for your time, <BR>Castle Sinicrope<BR><SPAN style="font-style: italic;"><SPAN style="font-style: italic;"></SPAN><BR></SPAN> <BR><DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote">On 2/2/07, <B class="gmail_sendername">Fernanda Gonçalves</B> <<A href="mailto:frg@uevora.pt">frg@uevora.pt</A>> wrote:</SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <DIV bgcolor="#ffffff"> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Dear Brian,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">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").</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Can it be because I´m using the current version of CLAN and the files were written with a previous version?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">With that previous version, it didn´t occur.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Thank you for your attention.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Best wishes.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Fernanda Gonçalves</FONT> </DIV></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>