1. Accents are not displayed right!
1) Check the format of 1 or 2 of your texts in both DOS & Windows. In Windows, look at them using Notepad. You will immediately see whether the accented characters look right. If they do, you have Windows-format texts (ANSI). If they don't look right, then go to MSDOS, and then try EDIT xxx.txt -- if that works you'll see them in their DOS encarnation. Look again at the accented characters. If your pc cannot understand EDIT, then try TYPE xxx.txt -- the text will flash by fast and will be impossible to scrutinise but if there are accented characters in the last few lines of xxx.txt you will be able to see them. If they look right in one of these two ways go to 3.
2) Using Tag File 2 to convert accents on the fly should not be necessary unless your accented characters are like this: "é" "À" in the text. (If they are in this sort of format you have HTML or similar and WILL need to use Tag File 2 correctly and enough should be there in Help to guide you.)
3) Once you know which format they're in, in Text Characteristics set the Language to the right one, and the format to Windows or DOS accordingly.
4) If they're in DOS or HTML format, you could convert all your texts to the usual Windows format if you wanted, using Text Converter, but would need to know the correct codes for each conversion needed -- the codes can be found in the Appendix of a DOS or Windows manual, but it can be a pain finding them accurately. Or, one by one you might be able to convert them successfully in MS Word. It'd depend how many texts you had as to whether that'd be easy to do or not I guess.
.
Site Designed by Nicknet Web Publishing