Umlaut: how to import them?

When I try to import German customer information from Excel using a dataport, it changes the letter ü to 3 and ö to - How can I correct this? (I don’t want to search and replace in the imported data, I want it to be imported correctly). Thanks, Matthijs Thalen

Search this forum for ANSI and look at the topic started by “Kolja”. There You have the solution Edited by - Lars Westman on 2001 Apr 05 11:07:59

When you save the text file from the Excel sheet, use the save as Text (OS/2 or MS-DOS) option. It is far down in the file format list. This might help you out in a simple way. Pelle