It's when I save the Excel file as tsv. If I save as DOS-text I lose the special characters. If I save as Unicode-text I get the special characters but Exhibit loses half the records.
On Monday, September 9, 2024 at 8:31:43 PM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > when you tsv loses special characters, is that when you save the excel > file as a tsv, or when you read the tsv into exhibit? > On 9/9/2024 9:00 PM, Roger Cutler wrote: > > I care deeply about Babel. It is the only way that I have been able to > interface between my Excel data and Exhibit displays. Other Excel->Jason > converters create Jason that looks a lot like the Babel-created Jason, but > make Exhibit croak. A workaround is to use tsv/txt files, but I then lose > all special characters like in "Dvořák", which Babel handled just fine. > > I have been using Exhibit for a lot more than a decade for multiple > purposes. I've had repeated trouble with forced version upgrades of > Exhibit that have involved losing features, but losing Babel is really hard > to recover from. > > On Tuesday, August 27, 2024 at 5:09:50 PM UTC-5 [email protected] > wrote: > >> Babel has been down for a decade so hopefully nobody cares. If you rely >> on painter, it is because you are using exhibit v2; you should migrate to >> exhibit v3 which doesn't use it. Which I expect will be easier to do >> while your e2 version is still working. >> On 8/26/2024 4:40 PM, V. Alex Brennen wrote: >> >> Hello everyone, >> >> Over the next month we are planning to migrate the Simile Widgets server >> to a new home in the AI Lab. >> >> As part of this migration process we are planning to retire and shutdown >> some applications. Basically, we are shutting down the Java server side >> applications and planning to continue to serve the Javascript for the >> applications that you run on your own webpages. These Javascript based >> applications include, for example, Timeline, Timeplot, Exhibit, etc. The >> Java server side applications that are being retired include Babel, >> Painter, etc. >> >> I expect that there will be no noticeable impact or downtime as part of >> this migration process. It should be completely transparent to you. All of >> your local Javascript based pages are expected to continue to work without >> modifications. We will not be changing the domain from simile-widgets.org >> . >> >> If anyone would like to run a local copy of the Java applications that we >> are retiring, they are fully open source and links to the code repositories >> can be found on their application pages on simile-widgets.org. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to >> me at [email protected] and we can discuss them. >> >> Thank you, >> >> V. Alex Brennen >> [email protected] >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "SIMILE Widgets" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/simile-widgets/77d27488-d376-4083-bad5-4847d1d31f83n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/simile-widgets/77d27488-d376-4083-bad5-4847d1d31f83n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "SIMILE Widgets" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/simile-widgets/e0fec93e-3bd9-41b0-b5dc-028b118392a4n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/simile-widgets/e0fec93e-3bd9-41b0-b5dc-028b118392a4n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/simile-widgets/6ce0894e-84bd-46e8-8413-2f7f6b33a304n%40googlegroups.com.
