From Greek into Unicode

[Revuelta]

Dear friends:

Perhaps you may help me.

I have built a database with text in MacGreek on FileMaker 6. When I have imported the database into FM7 the new program doesn't recognize MacGreek and it is unable to manage the text. Some glyphs are missing and instead I just see empty boxes. My questions are as follows:

1) Can FM7 recognize all old ASCII systems? I have tried with all text field configuratios: unicode, Greek, etc. Am I forgetting something (some field option)?

2) Is there any way to automatically convert ASCII systems into Unicode within FM7? Till now I have been exporting the text from FM6, importing the text into TextEdit, converting the text into Unicode and importing the result into FM7. But this procedure is very time-consuming and only possible with small files. One of the files I want to convert is 1,9 Gigas?

Thank in advance for your help.

R.

[The Shadow]

Revuelta,

Welcome to the forum!

I haven't tried this, but you might want to see if you can export your data as XML from FM6, then try importing that into FM7. I believe XML requires the data to be converted to unicode on its way out, so maybe it will import more smoothly that way.

[Revuelta]

Thank you for the idea. Perhaps I have not well implemented it, but it doesn't seem to work. The text is modified, but the result is not as expected: it is not greek.

Any other idea?

Thanks.

[The Shadow]

Sorry Revuelta, this isn't really my thing, I just thought there might be an easy way out.

I notice the thread:

http://www.fmforums.com/threads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=solutions&Number=99668&Forum=All_Forums&Words=unicode%20greek&Searchpage=0&Limit=25&Main=99668&Search=true&where=bodysub&Name=&daterange=1&newerval=&newertype=&olderval=&oldertype=&bodyprev=#Post99668

where RDecker mentions he had some success with ancient greek, perhaps he might know how your (much easier) task might be done. You could try sending him a message.