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July 23, 2020
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How to import data into form fields with French characters?

  • July 23, 2020
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We fill out PDF forms by going to Edit > Form Options > Import data and selecting a txt file that fills in the form fields. However, some of our clients are French and the special characters that contain accents are not importing properly. For instance, an 'â' turned into a ':'.

The text file was created used the Unicode UTF-8 encoding language and the characters work in the csv and txt files. We've tried the other options but none have imported the special characters properly.

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try67
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Community Expert
July 23, 2020

Encode the files as ANSI and it should work just fine.

kileyCFCAuthor
Participating Frequently
February 24, 2021

Do I encode the PDF or the .txt file as ANSI?

I've tried checking all the settings on both but I don't see where I could change that?

try67
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 24, 2021

The text file. I recommend doing it using Notepad++, if you're on Windows.