importing a user tool

[ray robinson]

It appears Accordance has trouble importing text files that have apostrophes.

 

I attempt to import a plain text file into a new Accordance User tool and get these spurious characters where apostrophe marks are, for example a sample of the import;

 

 

happened and never make this mistake again.’ I asked her at the time about other options, and she said ‘Do you want to finish uni?’; I said ‘Of course’ and she replied ‘Well you can’t think otherwise’ ... I don’t remember making the decision

 

 

Looking at the plain text file beforehand, it looks clean and no spurious characters, just the apostrophes. I can repeat this result with a second import.

The plain text file was exported from a Pages document.

 

I’m using Accordance 13.1.1

OS 10.15.5 on a 2020 MacBook Air 1.2 G i7, 16G.

 

Thanks

Ray Robinson

[Joel Brown]

It looks like your file is UTF8, try converting it to MacRoman first.

[ray robinson]

Thanks very much for the quick answer but I have no idea how to do that. A quick search on Google tells me I might have to get into coding.

Is that the case or is there a simple way to import a text file?

 

Thanks in advance

Ray Robinson

[Joel Brown]

I think the free program BBEdit is fantastic for working with text files.  Just open up your source file in BBEdit, and at the bottom where it says 'UTF-8', change that to MacRoman, and save.