Issue with accents

monomero · Post by **monomero** » Tue Jan 21, 2014 10:31 pm

Accented letters are store wrongly in pgn files.

For examples "è" is saved as "Ã¨ " and ò as "Ã²".
They are display correctly in Chess Explorer, but not in other programs.

Is there a way to fix it ? Maybe a setting in my system ?

Thanks

Post by **Mark Uniacke** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 11:36 am

PGN comments are stored in Unicode (UTF-8 ) which is the correct way of storing characters from different languages in a text file. Remember HCE does not just support Latin (iso-8859-1) character set languages.

I assume you are using Windows programs which tend to be rather ancient when it comes to these things. You can convert the file in NotePad but you will lose character encodings which are not in the charset you choose, but you can convert to ANSI there.

Out of interest what program are you trying to read the files with?

monomero · Post by **monomero** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 5:16 pm

Correct, Windows 8 ..
I tried with a bunch of freewares (Arena, Tarrasch, ChessX, Chesspad ..)
Just Scid vs PC handles UTF-8 properly.