[V4MD Mac] importText

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 4/5/05 12:05 PM, "peter salomon" <peter.salomon at gmx.net> wrote:

> hi all,
> 
> i have a txt file, generated by EXCEL, export as TAB separated text.
> 
> to fill one  table of my database i use cursor funktion "importText".
> this works nice so farr. i get the complete table in correct order
> 
> but my records contain wrong encoding words like "m%ller"
> 
> i tried do to
> 1.
> setting db.encoding to "utf-8"
> import txt via importText:
> --> records contain wrong encoding words like "m%ller"
> 
> 2.
> converting txt file to utf-16 using mac´s TextEdit
> import txt via importText:
> --> records contain wrong encoding words like "m%ller"
> --> order of columns is wrong
> 
> so - what ca i do to import my excel sheet into Vtable correctly? any ideas?

Hi Peter,

1) Can you send us THIS file, or its first lines?

2) what is actual encoding of this text file? Do you know this ?

If you can please send us small project which
    make db
    and try import.

This will speed up bug fix.


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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

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