Handling Diacritical Marked Text

[Das's]

Rudolph and Doug,

I had the question after reading Doug: Do I have to encode my whole database of lookup data now to take advantage of UTF8 for these few tables that have the special data?   Is it all because of the one?  Do I have to convert my whole database because of part of it?

Now when I read Rudolph I get some relief because it seems much simpler. I’ll tell you my case and things and you’ll be able to focus more correctly for my case.

This is a one time operation, it is creating lookup data, once it’s done I won’t be redoing these procedures.

The data is data I bought, I has come in excel files and mainly one big CSV I think they’re called, which is just a comma del. text file

When I read the big file into BBEDIt it can handle the whole thing and I’m pretty sure I see the accent marks correctly

Rudolph says what I’ve seen which is programs have this conversion built into them.. like BBEdit and TextEdit

He says once it’s in utf8 Omnis will have no problem with it

It sounds like I can just reserve the files in UTF8 and they will work correctly. Is it that simple?