chat to text conversion (accents in Spanish)

[Elnaz Kia]

Dear Leonid and Brian,

Thank you both so much for your detailed responses.

@Leonid Spektor <spektor at andrew.cmu.edu> you are right. I just
realized that the txt files that I created using the CHSTRING and REN
commands on my computer were correct. However, when the database crew at
the university upload the txt files to the university database, the txt
files do not show the correct characters. Do you have any solutions for
this?

Another issue is with the pdf versions of the mentioned files. Even on my
computer when I convert the correctly converted txt files to pdf, it does
not show the characters correctly. Are there any solutions for this
problem? Note: I create the pdf files in batch using the Adobe Acrobat DC
Create PDFs Tool.

Many thanks for taking the time and answering my questions!

Best,
Elnaz

Also,

Also

Elnaz Kia, Ph.D. (she, her, hers)

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On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 11:50 AM Leonid Spektor <spektor at andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:

> Elnaz,
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
> Leonid.
>
> On Oct 28, 2021, at 14:06, Brian Macwhinney <macw at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
> Dear Elnaz,
>      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.
>
> — Brian MacWhinney
> Teresa Heinz Professor of Cognitive Psychology,
> Computational Linguistics,
> and Modern Languages, CMU
>
> On Oct 28, 2021, at 1:27 PM, Elnaz Kia <ek325 at nau.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I have a question about accents in Spanish. So, here is what I have on a
> .cha transcript file:
>
> *STU: yo [:: _] me gusta ver(lo) *él* [:: _] porque él es muy bien
> [:: bueno] en el xxx eh porque es el goleador .
>
> And when I convert the file to a text. this happens:
>
> *STU:	yo [:: _] me gusta ver(lo)* él* [:: _] porque él es muy bien
>
> [:: bueno] en el xxx eh porque es el goleador .
>
> And this is how I convert .cha files to .txt files:
>
> chstring +re +cbullets.cut *.cha
> ren -f +re *.chstr.cex *.txt
>
> My question is, how can I avoid this problem?
>
> Thanks,
> Elnaz
>
>
>
>
> Elnaz Kia, Ph.D. (she, her, hers)
>
> *Post-Doctoral Research Associate
> <https://l2trec.utah.edu/about/staff-directory.php>*
>
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> <https://l2trec.utah.edu/>
>
> University of Utah
>
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