SALT2CHAT & Language Codes

[Mihaela Barokova]

Hi Leonid, 

Thank you for the clarification! I will check the encoding of the original 
files and then look into the CP2UTF command. 

Mihaela


On Saturday, June 20, 2020 at 4:43:03 PM UTC+3, Leonid Spektor wrote:
>
> Mihaela,
>
> SALT2CHAT does not convert letters them selves. The problem you are 
> describing might be due to the fact that CLAN data files are encoded in 
> Unicode UTF8 format. If your SALT files are not encoded this way, then 
> after SALT2CHAT conversion CLAN is still unable to read and display those 
> files correctly. You would need to run CP2UTF command either 
> before SALT2CHAT command or immediately after. Please, read the manual 
> about using CP2UTF or just type "cp2utf" in CLAN's Commands window and 
> press return key to see the list of available options. In particular look 
> at +o option and choose the argument for +s based on which computer 
> platform your SALT data files were created on.
>
>
> Leonid. 
>
> On Jun 20, 2020, at 05:38, Mihaela Barokova <mihaela... at gmail.com 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
> Dear All, 
>
> My collaborator and I are currently working with transcribed mother-child 
> interactions collected from Bulgarian toddlers and preschoolers. All of our 
> language samples are transcribed in Bulgarian (Cyrillic) in SALT, and we 
> would like to convert them to the CHAT format to analyze with CLAN. Based 
> on the *The CHAT Transcription Format *documentation, it appears that 
> currently there is no language code for Bulgarian. We tried using the 
> language code for Russian to convert our transcripts using the SALT2CHAT 
> function, but it appears that not all symbols (Cyrillic letters) get 
> recognized, and the conversion turns some of the letters into punctuation 
> marks. Has anyone encountered this issue? Does anyone who has transcribed 
> in Cyrillic and used the SALT2CHAT function have any advice?
>
> Any advice is greatly appreciated!
> Mihaela
>
>
> ____________________
> Mihaela Barokova, M.A.
> PhD Candidate in Developmental Science
> Center for Autism Research Excellence <https://www.bu.edu/autism/>
> Boston University
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