How to import excel files with special string characters please?

[Michael Duarte Goncalves]

Hi everyone,

I need to import an excel file into stata, but the special characters are not written in the good way, and I don't know how to solve this problem.
Here is my code:

*********** Car prices 2017 ***************************
clear all
version 17
set more off
set varabbrev off


* Settings specific to local environment (adapt that to your current path)
// cd path
global data "C:/Users/miduarte/Desktop"

cd ${data}


import excel "./car_prices_2017.xlsx", firstrow allstring locale("es")

Here is a small -dataex- with data that I obtained:

* Example generated by -dataex-. For more info, type help dataex
clear
input str13 marca str639 modelo
"VOLVO" "XC 90 HÃ*brido T8 Twin Inscription AWD"
"VOLVO" "XC 90 HÃ*brido T8 Twin Momentum AWD"  
"VOLVO" "XC 90 HÃ*brido T8 Twin R-Design AWD"  
end

Thank you in advance for your help.
Michael

Edit: My Stata's version is 17.