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Importing some text with apostrophes

Claude Mante, Retired
Posted 3 years ago

Hello!

I want to import a text in French, but unfortunately apostrohes disappear! Consider

LeTexte = Import["UEMO2021.txt", {"Text", "Lines"}]

While in the original document we have for instance the sentence "j’ai apprécié l’approche de l’origine des prénoms", I obtain in LeTexte : "j’ai apprécié l’approche de l’origine des prénoms".... What should I do? Thanks a lot in advance,

Claude
POSTED BY: Claude Mante
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Mike Besso
Mike Besso
Posted 3 years ago

check out: https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/29309/export-and-import-with-special-unicode-characters
POSTED BY: Mike Besso

I think you'll succeed with Mike's suggestion above. But also be aware that different sources can use different characters for apostrophe. So one encoding might not work for all documents.
POSTED BY: Richard Frost

Thank you very much!

LeTexte = 
  Import["UEMO2021.txt", {"Text", "Lines"}, 
   CharacterEncoding -> "WindowsANSI"];

works perfectly!

Regards, Claude
POSTED BY: Claude Mante
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