Importing special symbols like č, š, ž...

[Malamojka]

Hi, as I am importing my data into FET I always get issues with importing slovene letters like č, š, ž... It imports them as a symbol and then I have to spend a lot of time correcting all the mistakes. Is there something I can do about this?

[Liviu Lalescu]

Hello!

FET works with the UTF-8 standard. Could you please try to convert your CSV files (I assume you want to import from CSV?) to UTF-8 and import in FET?

Could you send me your files, so I can have a look?

[Malamojka]

OK, I don't know how to convert csv to UTF-8 (and yes, I use csv). I googled it just now, but it looks like my excell doesn't have an option to save as csv utf-8. If you have any suggestion how to do this I'd be glad to hear it.
Where should I send my csv to? To your email?

[Liviu Lalescu]

fet4 at lalescu dot ro, yes, please.

UTF-8 is the encoding of the file. Excel should be able to modify this encoding - the option should be somewhere in the menu. Just search on the internet for how to convert the encoding to UTF-8 in Excel.

[Volker Dirr]

If you press "save as..." in Excel, then there is a combobox called "Encoding". You must change that to "utf-8".
If your Excel version doesn't have that, then you could open your Excel file with LibreOffice and export it from there. In LibreOffice utf-8 is enabled by default.