Dear Russel this sound like a UTF16 Problem.
Microsoft (=Excel) encodes the text in a „different“ format so the easiest way is to export to csv use a text editor to get the encoding to UTF8 This solution works for me Kind regards Hofrat Mag. Rainer Stowasser Head of Library and Archives ZAMG > Am 09.02.2022 um 12:04 schrieb Russel G. P. Shihepo <russellge...@gmail.com>: > > Dear Community > > I have a prepared data set in excel format (.xlsx), some of it contains > umlaut (German texts) and click sounds symbols of African languages such > as field 245, and 260. But whenever I import the file to MARC editor > through the Delimited Text Translator, I lose all the umlaut and > punctuation marks for click sounds in the data. > Does anybody have a clue or alternative method that can be used to take > records from excel files to MARC editor without losing umlaut? > > Regards > Russel Shihepo > *Librarian* > *Africa/Namibia* > _______________________________________________ > > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz > Unsubscribe: https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > EXTERNAL EMAIL: Do not click any links or open any attachments unless you > trust the sender and know the content is safe. > > _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Unsubscribe: https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
