CSV.file with foreign characters

[Marco Gallo]

Dear all,

I am using Stata 14.2 on Mac and trying to import a csv file including foreign characters from various languages. I believe the .csv text file is utf-8 encoded, however I am not sure.When I try to import the file using

insheet using "filename.csv"

everything works fine apart the foreign characters which are displayed as a "?". What do I need to do to import it properly?

Best,
Marco

[William Lisowski]

The insheet command, as of Stata 13, is no longer an official part of Stata (see help insheet) and has been superseded by import delimited, so perhaps you should change to import delimited and explore what its encoding() option can do for you. See help import delimited for more details.