jondesousa Wrote:I initially started with an excel file which I saved as a tab limited text file. I then opened up that file to ensure that I was seeing the kanji when I saved into the text file. I did see the kanji there so I dropped to text file onto the supermemo / palm file conversion tool. I then hot synced the file onto my palm. I tried adjusting the settings on the palm but still to no avail.Did you read what I said about SM for CE not be able to import unicode characters? The support guy at SM said that Q&A format import doesn't support unicode and he pointed me towards the XML template. Even in XML format the unicode characters would not import. I asked technical support about this and got no reply.
In the end I had to resort to converting the actual unicode characters to Numerical Character References as described above. I used an online conversion tool for that. The whole process is extremely fiddly. If anyone knows a better method, I'd love to know.
I think the pda versions of SM are based on older versions of SM and the import routines don't handle unicode. I'm wondering whether the best idea is to try another program altogether!