Totally new to this with md files and also Joplin that looks like a really good software. I am coming from Evernote and have read that I can import Evernote notes into Joplin. That is great for the notes I have there...
But I also have a bunch of other text files, locally on my computer that I wish to have in Joplin. So I found a software that renames the files from .txt to .md (Advanced Renamer on windows) and have used that to change the txt files extension to .md.
When I import those files into Joplin I get an question mark (?) in all places where my Swedish text is using one of the three nordic characters of å ä and ö (a with an dot, a with two dots and o with two dots).
What am I doing wrong?
Is there a setting that I don't know about?
Or can't I use this method with just renaming the file extensions?
Could you provide an example file that shows this issue? I expect it's due to the file encoding as Joplin expects UTF-8. If it's in a different encoding, maybe it's possible to detect it, but I'm not sure. Otherwise you'd have to convert them all yourself to UTF-8 using something like iconv.
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And how can I show this with a attached file when the problem is only showing inside of Joplin software. The original text file is correctly showing the nordic charachters...
I just noticed that if I create a new note and copy and paste the text from the txt-file I do get it right with all the right characters.
So that thing you said about "UTF-8 using something like iconv" - I am trying to find that online to use on my Kubuntu but the only thing I find is either online tools (which I don't want to use - privacy issue) or I don't get the terminal commands to work...
And I tried to import the same text files into the Windows desktop client of Evernote, but is the same result there...
Your file is encoded in ISO-8859. When I cat it in the terminal I also get Tio bra f�rm�gor,...
Here's how to fix those files:
$ iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 ISO-8859.txt
Tio bra förmågor, eller de färdigheter som är viktigast.
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no privacy issues there....