Re: st: Reading text document

[chamara Anuranga <kcanurangast@gmail.com>]

Dear All,

Realized that Stata does not support for Unicode text files. It there
any method to convert text files to ASCii without opening text file or
otherwise import the Unicode text file to Stata without any problem.

Thanks,
Chamara

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:27 AM, chamara Anuranga
<kcanurangast@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I tried to read an text document and it did not read the information
> properly. (Using insheet command). Then I check the content using type
> command and it shows some strange output on Stata which is not visible
> on notepad.
>
> If text file opened on notepad it shows  year variable as
> Year
>
> If use type command on Stata and look at the data it shows
> ..Y.e.a.r.|.
>
> I could not identify these extra period between letters.
> Anybody knows what is going on with this text document and why it does
> not read the data to Stata properly.
>
> Thanks,
> Chamara
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