Language problem

  • Thread starter Thread starter Tom Swanick
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Tom Swanick

Hi,

I am importing an Ascii file to Access. I'm using Win XP Pro, Access 2000.
The Ascii file has lots of foreign characters) (French/German accents etc.).
After import my table doesn't show these characters , for example citroen
becomes CITRO?N (imagine the 1st citroen having an umlaut e.

The same data with Access 97 is not a problem at all, so it's not a
machine/language setting.

Any help please?
 
Not sure either, but a faster workaround may be to import into Access97,
then convert that mdb to Access 2000/02.
-Ed
 
Hi Tom,

As you import the file, click the Advanced... button and check the Code
Page setting.
 
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