Typing Spanish characters

Does anyone know if it's possible? It should be. I set my Touch's language and keyboard both to Spanish but I don't see how I would do it.
Dan

The normal Mac Spanish layout doesn't use the Option key, so I am thinking there might be something you tap that changes the layout into something like the top picture here:
http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/spanishlayouts.jpg
where ñ and ç are made directly from the keyboard top level, while the acute and grave are deadkeys to the right of the p.

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Typing Spanish characters with English keyboard

I have both British and Spanish language inputs on International from System Preferences so I can switch between them.
This constrains me to use the character palette.
Does anyone know the keystrokes for accented vowels in Spanish, using English keyboard?
...as in á, é, í, ó, ú and ü
Thanks in advance
Dee
iMac G5, 2.1 GHz, iSight Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Yes, this feature does exist still in Mac OS X.
To activate this feature, do the following:
1. Open System Preferences.
2. Choose the International Preference Pane.
3. Click the Inputs tab.
4. Check the Character Palette.
5. You will notice a flag appear in your status bar next to your battery Life.
6. Click the flag, and select Show Character Palette.
7. From there you can choose the characters you want.
If you have any questions or don't understand something, feel free to post!
Grant

Typing in Spanish characters

I have an iPhone4 and want to type Spanish characters after changing my keyboard appropriately, but the special characters are not present. Shouldn't it have them?

¿Qué onda? Hold down the key you want the accent over, like with the 'e'. hold it down and a list of selections will come up.

IPlanet setting to properly display Spanish characters in PDF Document?

I have a bilingual PDF document (Spanish and English). The document displays correctly on multiple other systems (Unix/Weblogic, NT4, IIS), but when I move it up to my server that is running iPlanet, the Spanish characters do not display properly. Since it displays fine in other environments, I am guessing it is a setting that needs to be changed in iPlanet and not something that needs to be changed with my PDF document. Any suggestions?
Thanks so much in advance.
Tracey

Hi,
I am not sure if you are referring to the users creating your forms or the users using your forms.
In terms of typing charactes if the keyboard is set so that you can type spanish characters and the font you are in has those characters then they will be entered into the form, both when creating and filling of the form.
There is nothing specific that needs to be done to the form to allow this, it just accepts the characters that the OS passes to it from the keyboard.
(Point of note: if you are specifying a font to be used this would need to contain the characters that you want to use).
If I have misunderstood the problem then I apologise and if you provide more detail I can investigate further.
Regards
Malcolm

Allowing Spanish characters in PDF forms

I'd like to develop a PDF form primarily for Spanish speaking users. Is it possible to allow Spanish characters in a PDF form? I know setting the "default locale" in LC has nothing to do with this, so is it a matter of system settings (ie. keyboard settings) on the user's machine?
Has anyone every tried this before?
Thanks

Hi,
I am not sure if you are referring to the users creating your forms or the users using your forms.
In terms of typing charactes if the keyboard is set so that you can type spanish characters and the font you are in has those characters then they will be entered into the form, both when creating and filling of the form.
There is nothing specific that needs to be done to the form to allow this, it just accepts the characters that the OS passes to it from the keyboard.
(Point of note: if you are specifying a font to be used this would need to contain the characters that you want to use).
If I have misunderstood the problem then I apologise and if you provide more detail I can investigate further.
Regards
Malcolm

[SOLVED] urxvt/console spanish characters

i didn't bother with this "issue" i have, because rarely i type something in spanish (my native language) in urxvt, but lately i had to use msn a lot, (yeah i hate it too, but here people use that... and facebook) so, i have to use a lot the "n" and "a,e,i,o,u" characters, the thing is, i have no problem in X apps typing those characters as you can see, but in console and urxvt i can see the "a,e,i,o,u" characters, but i cannot type them, for example, if a text file has them, i can see them in vim, but im not able to type them, but the "n" character i cannot see neither in console nor urxvt, cant see it and cannot type it, only a "?" when it is displayed...
/etc/rc.conf
# /etc/rc.conf - Main Configuration for Arch Linux
# LOCALIZATION
# LOCALE: available languages can be listed with the 'locale -a' command
# HARDWARECLOCK: set to "UTC" or "localtime"
# USEDIRECTISA: use direct I/O requests instead of /dev/rtc for hwclock
# TIMEZONE: timezones are found in /usr/share/zoneinfo
# KEYMAP: keymaps are found in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps
# CONSOLEFONT: found in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts (only needed for non-US)
# CONSOLEMAP: found in /usr/share/kbd/consoletrans
# USECOLOR: use ANSI color sequences in startup messages
LOCALE="es_AR.utf8"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
USEDIRECTISA="no"
TIMEZONE="America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires"
KEYMAP="es"
CONSOLEFONT=""
CONSOLEMAP="es"
USECOLOR="yes"
# HARDWARE
# MOD_AUTOLOAD: Allow autoloading of modules at boot and when needed
# MOD_BLACKLIST: Prevent udev from loading these modules
# MODULES: Modules to load at boot-up. Prefix with a ! to blacklist.
# NOTE: Use of 'MOD_BLACKLIST' is deprecated. Please use ! in the MODULES array.
MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
#MOD_BLACKLIST=() #deprecated
MODULES=(acpi-cpufreq mii r8169 snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-hwdep snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd !snd-pcsp snd-hda-intel soundcore r8180 uvcvideo joydev cups usblp)
# Scan for LVM volume groups at startup, required if you use LVM
USELVM="no"
# NETWORKING
# HOSTNAME: Hostname of machine. Should also be put in /etc/hosts
HOSTNAME="aleyscha"
# Use 'ifconfig -a' or 'ls /sys/class/net/' to see all available interfaces.
# Interfaces to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each interface then list in INTERFACES
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# - no hyphens in your interface names - Bash doesn't like it
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#eth0="eth0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255"
wlan0="wlan0 192.168.1.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255"
INTERFACES=(wlan0)
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# Declare each route then list in ROUTES
# - prefix an entry in ROUTES with a ! to disable it
gateway="default gw 192.168.1.1"
ROUTES=(gateway)
# Enable these network profiles at boot-up. These are only useful
# if you happen to need multiple network configurations (ie, laptop users)
# - set to 'menu' to present a menu during boot-up (dialog package required)
# - prefix an entry with a ! to disable it
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# - prefix a daemon with a ! to disable it
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DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond @hal @cpufreq @alsa @gpm @sensors @wicd @bitlbee)
locale -a output:
[aleyscha@aleyscha 90 ~ 09:35]$ locale -a
C
POSIX
en_US
en_US.iso88591
en_US.utf8
es_AR
es_AR.iso88591
es_AR.utf8
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PS1='\033[?17;0;127c[\u@\h \# \W \A]\$ '
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#if [ $TERM = 'linux' -a $SHELL = '/bin/bash' ] ; then
# PS1='\033[?17;0;40c[\u@\h \# \W \A]\$ '
#else PS1='[\u@\h \# \W \A]\$ '
#fi
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PATH=$PATH:${HOME}/bin
export CDPATH=.:/sda4/Video:/sda4/Audio/Music:/sda4/Movies:/sda4/downloads
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
export LC_ALL=C
export PAGER=less
export EDITOR=vim
export HISTCONTROL="ignoredups"
export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1
HISTFILE=~/.history
HISTSIZE=4000
SAVEHIST=2000
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shopt -s cdspell
### Aliases ###
alias hi="history"
alias mountsdd="sudo mount /dev/sdd1 /sdd1"
alias lsl="ls -l --group-directories-first --color=auto -F" #ls -l --group-directories-first --time-style=+"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M" --color=auto -F
alias ls="ls --group-directories-first --color=auto -F" #ls --group-directories-first --time-style=+"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M" --color=auto -F
alias pacman="sudo pacman"
alias y="yaourt -Syu --aur"
alias yy="yes | yaourt -Syu --aur"
alias x="startx"
alias get_log="sudo tail -f /var/log/everything.log"
alias root="sudo su"
alias Reboot="sudo reboot"
alias Shutdown="sudo shutdown -h now"
alias cp="cp -vi"
alias mv="mv -vi"
alias du="du -h"
alias df="df -h"
alias isoinfo="isoinfo -d -i"
alias log_everything="sudo tail -f /var/log/everything.log"
alias isolist="isoinfo -f -i"
alias mocp="mocp -T orpheus"
alias lsdev="ls /dev | grep sd"
alias lsuuid="ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/"
alias sync="rsync -r -n -t -p -o -g -v --progress --delete -l"
alias gmail="elinks www.gmail.com"
alias getlive="GetLive --config-file .getliverc"
alias irssi="irssi -n lean2501"
alias Wget="wget -P /sda4/downloads"
alias compilei686="gcc -march=athlon -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
alias compile="gcc -O2 -Wall -pedantic"
alias diskcheck="e2fsck -v"
alias colem32="~/bin/colem/colem32"
alias vgb="~/bin/vgb/vgb"
alias vgba="~/bin/vgba/vgba32"
alias ines="~/bin/ines/ines32"
alias clamclean="clamscan --recursive --infected --bell --remove /sda4/downloads/"
alias cdo="eject /dev/cdrom"
alias cdc="eject -t /dev/cdrom"
alias mx="chmod a+x"
alias 000="chmod 000"
alias 644="chmod 644"
alias 755="chmod 755"
alias resreset="xrandr --size 1024x600"
alias :q="exit"
alias pebrot="pebrot 2> /dev/null"
alias mplayfb="mplayer -zoom -x 1024 -y 600"
alias cplay="cplay /sda4/Audio/Music/"
alias strace="strace -e trace=file"
alias vifm="vifm ~ /sda4/downloads/"
alias doom="chocolate-doom -iwad /sda4/bin/remakes/ID/DOOM.WAD"
alias doom2="chocolate-doom -iwad /sda4/bin/remakes/ID/DOOM2.WAD"
alias heretic="chocolate-heretic -iwad /sda4/bin/remakes/ID/HERETIC.WAD"
alias hexen="chocolate-hexen -iwad /sda4/bin/remakes/ID/HEXEN.WAD"
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cd ~/bin/arch_packages
wget "http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/$1/$1.tar.gz" -O - | tar xzf -
cd $1
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# Usage: mkmv <file> <directory>
mkmv() {
mkdir "$2"
mv "$1" "$2"
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nh() {
nohup "$@" &>/dev/null &
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if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
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if [[ $1 ]]; then
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screen -S $1
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if [[ $1 ]]; then
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screen -ls
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#case $TERM in
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if screen -ls | grep -q Main; then
screen -xr Main
else
screen -S Main
fi
#esac
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function detach {
if [ -S /tmp/$1.dtach ]; then
dtach -a /tmp/$1.dtach
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dtach -c /tmp/$1.dtach $1
fi
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extract () {
if [ -f $1 ] ; then
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*.bz2) bzip2 -d $1 ;;
*.rar) unrar2dir $1 ;;
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*.tar) tar xf $1 ;;
*.tbz2) tar xjf $1 ;;
*.tgz) tar xzf $1 ;;
*.zip) unzip2dir $1 ;;
*.Z) uncompress $1 ;;
*.7z) 7z x $1 ;;
*.ace) unace x $1 ;;
*) echo "'$1' cannot be extracted via extract()" ;;
esac
else
echo "'$1' is not a valid file"
fi
#bu - Back Up a file. Usage "bu filename.txt"
bu () { cp $1 ${1}-`date +%Y%m%d%H%M`.backup ; }
if [ "$TERM" = "linux" ]; then
echo -en "\e]P0222222" #black
echo -en "\e]P8222222" #darkgrey
echo -en "\e]P1803232" #darkred
echo -en "\e]P9982b2b" #red
echo -en "\e]P25b762f" #darkgreen
echo -en "\e]PA89b83f" #green
echo -en "\e]P3aa9943" #brown
echo -en "\e]PBefef60" #yellow
echo -en "\e]P4324c80" #darkblue
echo -en "\e]PC2b4f98" #blue
echo -en "\e]P5706c9a" #darkmagenta
echo -en "\e]PD826ab1" #magenta
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clear #for background artifacting
fi
thanks for read!
Last edited by leo2501 (2009-05-07 10:45:29)

well... problem solved... the secret was...
in /etc/rc.conf
LOCALE="es_AR.utf8"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
USEDIRECTISA="no"
TIMEZONE="America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires"
KEYMAP="es"
CONSOLEFONT=""
CONSOLEMAP=""
USECOLOR="yes"
in .bashrc
export LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 #for arch to show all interactive messages in english instead of spanish (argentina)
or in .profile
export LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
now i can see and type spanish chars in urxvt

Spanish characters in English keyboard?

Hi all,
I have both British and Spanish language inputs from System Preferences so I can switch between them.
This constrains me to use the character palette. when typing Spanish.
Does anyone know the keystrokes for accented vowels in Spanish, using English keyboard?
The characters are: á, é, í, ó, ú, ü and ñ
Thanks in advance
Dee
iMac G5, 2.1 GHz, iSight Mac OS X (10.4.5)

It is very easy to learn and remember the accents on the Macintosh keyboard, unlike in Windows which are done as ALT- 000, where 000 is some forgetable number.
You don't have to learn each specific instance, just the associated vowel which is most commonly used with it. The set of pre-keys works with the other vowels as well.
So for example the umlaut ¨is most commonly seen on the German ü so just remember the associated cmd u followed by whatever vowel after to get:
option u = ä, ë, ï, ö, ü
similarly
option ` [under the esc key] = à, è, ì, ò, ù
option e = á, é, í, ó, ú
option i = â, ê, î, ô, û
option n = ã, õ, ñ
Some work more directly such as:
option a = å
option o = ø
option s = ß
option b = ∫
option c = ç
option d = ∂
opton f = ƒ
Some are more arcane but still memorable:
option q = œ (think of an extended o)
option w = ∑ (think of turning the w on its side)
option r = ® (fairly obvious)
option t = †
option y = ¥
option p = π
option v = √
option m = µ
option = = ≠
Usually the shift gets the capitalised version (doesn't work out 100% of the time).
This is what I love about the remarkable clear headedness and forethought that went into Macintosh design. Fortunately most of this has survived the transition to OSX.
Even if I don't specifically know which key does it a quick guess and try gets it for me.

IBook starts typing strange characters

For seemingly no reason my iBook G4 switches over to typing nonsense characters at random times. I'll be midsentence and all of a sudden it types gibberish. Sometimes if I wait a bit it'll go back, but sometimes it lasts hours. Occasionally it switches back and forth, typing some normal letters and some weird characters. This seems to be going along with an issue when I startup of an unusual menu coming up that has a picture of the HD and a Refresh arrow on the left underneath and a right-pointing arrow (--->) on the right.
Obviously not being able to type is a huge problem and I can't seem to find any info on similar problems. Any ideas?

Wow -- this is really weird, and the problem must be relatively common for lots of Tiger users!
The DEFAULT Keyboard shortcuts for BOTH the SPOTLIGHT Window AND to move from one kind of keyboard to another is Command-Option-Space. I had selected three optional keyboards in the INTERNATIONAL LIST because I sometimes type Spanish or Portuguese documents.
Sometimes (who knows when) when I thought I was summoning SPOTLIGHT window, I was shifting to another keyboard configuration.
For the time being, I have disabled the keyboard shortcut (which you can get to from either the Keyboard or the International panes of the System Preferences. But I'm wondering now how to change the key assignment for the OS shortcuts (I know how to do it inside some appllications, of course, but not how to CHANGE OS-level shortcuts.
Anyway, thanks Neil for solving the big problem.
bruce
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

HTML + using spanish characters

Hi
If this is a dumb question - forgive me.
Note this is for a site that will be in English & Spansih
(translated pages
in Spanish)
But if I want to include spanish characters on a site do I
need to replace
each spanish character with ascii code or is there another
way to get the
characters to display
e.g.
resúmenes - do i have to enter it into the html as
resúmenes
also
When I view the pages on my pc the spanish characters display
correctly.
Once the pages are uploaded the spanish characters do not
display - why
would this happen?
Thanks
B
www.visit-the-coqui.com/
If you are thinking of a vacation to Puerto Rico
http://gadgetgrapevine.blogspot.com
Latest gadget and other news here

Thanks david for the explaination.
So now I need to figure out how I can save my html as utf-8
without using
notepad (I don't have dreamweaver and have used up my trial
period).
Any one know of any other way of creating a utf-8 html file?
thanks
B
www.visit-the-coqui.com/
If you are thinking of a vacation to Puerto Rico
http://gadgetgrapevine.blogspot.com
Latest gadget and other news here
"David Powers" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>B wrote:
>> could you explain the difference in 'laymans terms'
>
> UTF-8 (Unicode) is designed to handle virtually all
writing systems,
> including Arabic, Japanese, Chinese - and English.
ISO-8859-1 is Western
> European encoding, which handles only those characters
used in Western
> European languages. ISO-8859-1 actually supports the
accented characters
> used in Spanish, but older browsers weren't always
capable of displaying
> them, which led to the use of HTML entities, such as
ñ.
>
> If you select ISO-8859-1 (Western European) in
Dreamweaver, it
> automatically converts all accented characters, such as
those used in
> Spanish, into entities, which makes the code very
difficult to read. If
> you select UTF-8, the accented characters are preserved.
Since English
> doesn't have any accented characters, the encoding is
identical in
> ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8.
>
> If you're working with a database, though, it's very
important not to mix
> the two types of encoding for data that uses accented
characters. If you
> do, the accented characters will be garbled.
>
>> also I posted another ? regarding a BOM warning that
I now get after
>> saving as utf-8 - is this an issue?
>
> I saw that, but didn't reply because you said you used
Notepad. I have no
> idea how Notepad handles the BOM (if I remember
correctly, it stands for
> Byte Order Mark). As the validation warning told you,
older browsers can't
> handle the BOM, so it's best to omit it. Dreamweaver
Preferences let you
> determine whether to add the BOM or leave it out of
UTF-8 pages. By
> default, Dreamweaver omits the BOM.
>
> --
> David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
> Author, "The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3"
(friends of ED)
> Author, "PHP Solutions" (friends of ED)
>
http://foundationphp.com/

Typing the characters "oun" launches "Save As" window

Product: HP ProBook 4530s
O/S: Windows 7, 2009, SP1, 32 bit
Error message - nope, no error message, just frustrating!
Any changes - nope, still stock
Okay, here's what happens... typing the characters "oun" in any word in any program is kicking me out of what I was doing to some other command window, as if the combination of the letters O U N is acting like some kind of shortcut command.
In MS Word, Excel, or Powerpoint, if I type "oun" in any word, the "Save As" window jumps up in front of me.
In MS Outlook, same thing. If I type any word with "oun" in it, like "around" "found" etc... it immediately jumps me out of the document, spreadsheet, presentation, or email, and brings up the "Save As" window.
Even in IE, it happens. Just in trying to type this post, it has already happened every time I have typed these three characters in succession. This odd window pops up at the bottom third of the IE screen with the main menu options "File Find Disable View Images Cache Tools Validate | Browser Mode: IE9 Compat View Document Mode: IE7 standards" and a submenu with the options "HTML CSS Console Script Profiler Network"
I never realized how often I type this letter combination. I find myself actually trying to think ahead and avoiding any word that might have "oun" in it. This only happens on this HP Probook, and not any of the other machines here with the same release of MS Office.
Any clues as to what is going on, and how I can fix it, make it stop or go away?
Thanks!
Rev. Joel T. of Watkinsville, GA
Thanks,
Rev. Joel T of Watkinsville, GA

Well, thanks for the suggestion. I have tried what you suggested. I used Control Panel to uninstall HP Power Management, then downloaded and installed the version behind your link. But... it still does it. I thought is was only happening in MS Office products, where any word with the characters "oun" will bring up the "Save As" window. But, even, here, in IE, if I type a word like counted or found, up pops a weird window on the bottom third of the screed that shows me HTML or CSS tabs, and let me choose style or document views... I never realized how many words have the characters o u n in succession in them until I hit this wall. I have also learned that if I type them slow enough, I am not kicked out... I'd REALLY love to know what program is the root of this redirect and just uninstall or remove it. But it appears that HP Power Management is not the solution, unless by manually uninstall, you could point me to the files I need to manually delete that Control Panel uninstall did not grab.
With hope...
Rev. Joel T.
Watkinsville, GA
Thanks,
Rev. Joel T of Watkinsville, GA

Special Spanish Characters - What do i need?

I am using Photoshop 7 to create graphics for a training series that is being translated into Spanish. I am using FCP 6.03 on a G5. What do I need from Adobe in order to create the graphics in the Spanish language? i only have access to some of the special characters of the language using the Spanish keyboard - I can show a list of the characters, but how do I use the unicode IDs of the characters in Photoshop to display the special characters? I can get the upside down ? and !, and the n with the tilde; the accented vowels are not part of the keyboard combinations.

Scroll to the bottom for Mac key combinations:
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I have created a database with character set WE8iso8859P1. Some of my tables that I imported from MS Access Database using ODBC contain English as well as Spanish characters. When I select the same from the database I just get ? for the non-English characters. What should I do to see the Spanish characters as well?

In the timeline, next to the audio (on the left) is a small drop down box which lets you set the language for the track. You'll see 'En' in both of them at the moment, and you need to change the Spanish one to be for Spanish. You should then be able to complete the build.

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I have the exact same issue right now!

EPMA dimension import issue with spanish characters

We are using special characters for spanish words, like the word Español.
When this was imported into EPMA using the Import Profile and importing a flat file, EPMA added the alias member as espan then showed a square box and then the l. Then, when deploying the app, no errors recorded in EPMA but planning showed errors since SQL query could not deal with this strange character (the square box symbol) in its query. When I manually change the member in the dimension library to Español, then the app deploys. So my relational database clearly accepts the characters.
So, the problem is in the Import of the text file when it has the special character ñ or other spanish characters with the accent marks or tildes. Is there something I need to do when importing a file with this character or other spanish language special characters?
Thanks
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Hi!
We have the same problem. Please somebody could help us?
Thanks in advance!
Analía

Problem with spanish characters

Hello
I am using an existing and proven app written in visual foxpro with a recently installed Oracle11g database (have done this before without problems)
I am using Microsoft ODBC for Oracle and have no possibility of changing this. (always used this without problems)
If I insert a string in in a fixed length char field of the same length of the string (say char(30)) IF THE STRING DOES NOT HAVE SPECIAL CHARACTERS, everything goes as usual. However, if the string contains some spanish language chars (ó, é, á, ñ) the insert fails indicating that the string is too long. I suspect "somewhere" this characters are encoded in double-byte instead of single-byte.
My question is, which is the Oracle setting that allows/prevents this? I need special characters encoded in 1 byte. Language is Spanish.
Some settings that the Oracle DBA passed to me are
NLS_CHARACTERSET = AL32UTF8
NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET= AL16UTF16
Any help will be appreciated, thanks!

In the database character set AL23UTF8 (NLS_CHARACTERSET=AL23UTF8), accented Spanish characters occupy 2 bytes each. This cannot be changed.
Two possible solutions:
-- recreate the database using the character set WE8MSWIN1252
-- redefine the column from CHAR(30), which usually by default means CHAR(30 BYTE), to CHAR(30 CHAR). This means no more than 30 characters but up to 120 bytes (in AL32UTF8).
If you run your application with NLS_LANG=.WE8MSWIN1252 and you do not use byte-oriented SQL functions such as SUBSTRB, INSTRB, or LENGTHB, you will most probably see no functional difference between single-byte storage and multibyte storage of Spanish characters. On the client side, these characters will be single-byte.
-- Sergiusz

Typing Spanish characters

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