<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Elnaz,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I just want to add more specific information to what Brian wrote. Your text editor needs to be able to display Unicode UTF-8 encoded characters. If you open the .txt file with CLAN, then you will see that characters from .txt file are displayed correctly.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If characters in your .txt file are not displayed correctly in CLAN, then please make sure that you have the latest version of CLAN. Otherwise, please email your sample file that show this problem to me directly for further testing.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Copying the line from .cha transcript that you have in your email below to a test file on my computer and then running the CHSTRING and REN command produces correct result on my computer.<br class=""><div class="">
<br class=""><br class="">Leonid.
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 28, 2021, at 14:06, Brian Macwhinney <<a href="mailto:macw@andrew.cmu.edu" class="">macw@andrew.cmu.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Elnaz,<div class=""> In order to view non-Roman characters such as é, as well as diacritics, CLAN relies on use of the Arial Unicode font which supports not only special European characters, but also Chinese, Sinhalese etc. because it is all of Unicode. If you convert a CHAT file viewed in Unicode to .txt format, you are going to see what you are seeing now unless your editor for the .txt format allows you to load in a Unicode font.</div><div class=""> <br class=""><div class="">
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letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 17px;" class="">— Brian MacWhinney</span><br style="font-size: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 17px;" class="">Teresa Heinz Professor of Cognitive Psychology, </span><br style="font-size: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 17px;" class="">Computational Linguistics, </span><br style="font-size: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 17px;" class="">and Modern Languages, CMU</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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<div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 28, 2021, at 1:27 PM, Elnaz Kia <<a href="mailto:ek325@nau.edu" class="">ek325@nau.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi Everyone,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have a question about accents in Spanish. So, here is what I have on a .cha transcript file:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">*STU: yo [:: _] me gusta ver(lo) <b class=""><font color="#ff0000" class="">él</font></b> [:: _] porque él es muy bien<br class=""> [:: bueno] en el xxx eh porque es el goleador .</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And when I convert the file to a text. this happens:</div><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap" class=""><font class="">*STU: yo [:: _] me gusta ver(lo)</font><b style="" class=""><font class=""> </font><font color="#ff0000" class="">él</font></b><font color="#ff0000" class=""> </font><span style="" class="">[:: _] porque él es muy bien </span></pre><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> [:: bueno] en el xxx eh porque es el goleador .</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font class=""><span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class="">And this is how I convert .cha files to .txt files:</span></font></div><div class=""><font class=""><span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="times new roman, serif" color="#ff0000" class="">chstring<span style="font-size:11pt" class=""> </span></font><span style="color:red;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class="">+re +cbullets.cut *.cha</span></div>
<div class=""><span style="color:red;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:11pt" class="">ren -f +re *.chstr.cex *.txt</span> <br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My question is, how can I avoid this problem?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Elnaz</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:19.0pt;font-family:"Brush Script MT";color:#00386c" class="">Elnaz
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