[OT] Filemaker and Hindi

[Mike Bonner]

Not sure if it would work, and I have no way to try it, but I think you
could set up the spreadsheet as an odbc datasource and pull from it using
lc database functionality.  Pretty sure that part work, but whether the
hindi would arrive intact is another question.

On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Colin Holgate <coiin at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> Nobody replied to this question, so here’s an easier one:
>
> You’re looking at an Excel spreadsheet, and can clearly see Hindi text in
> the cells. How do you get that text out of Excel? Copy and past doesn’t
> work, nor does exporting Unicode text.
>
>
> > On Dec 2, 2014, at 7:29 PM, Colin Holgate <coiin at verizon.net> wrote:
> >
> > >Some of you here are expert at Filemaker and also non-Roman languages.
> Any idea how to use Hindi text inside Filemaker? It seems to cope with
> Chinese, Japanese, and Thai, but apparently not Hindi. The text gets
> converted to scrambled Roman characters.
>
>
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