words with accents

[Fernanda Gonçalves]

Dear Castle,

That's right. The problem related with accents is solved with the new version.
Thanks to Leonid and Brian for the help.

Fernanda


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Brian MacWhinney 
  To: info-chibolts at mail.talkbank.org 
  Cc: Leonid Spektor ; Castle Sinicrope 
  Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 3:39 PM
  Subject: Re: words with accents


  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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