Re: [IUG] diacritic transfer to excel

[Bob Rasmussen <ras at anzio dot com>]

On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Penny Swanson wrote:

> As has been suggested on this list before, we make sure the default font 
> in Excell is Ariel Unicode MS. This helps but doesn't solve all the 
> problems. According to our Head of Systems, Microsoft has its own 
> version of Unicode which doesn't quite match the standard version.

Please explain that last statement. As far as I know, it is not true.

The original poster's problem was clearly a character set issue. I believe 
the data was in UTF-8, and needs to be imported as such.

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