I have an Access 2003 database. A table has a Memo field and I'm having issues with getting that data out.
- Exporting that field to a txt or csv chops that field off (255 characters)
- Exporting as Excel gives me strange characters for linebreaks
- Appending to a mysql database via myODBC gives an error about "incorrect string"
- Using VBA with Scripting.FileSystemObject doesn't work unless you tell it to create the file as Unicode, which is okay, but then I can't get the file converted to something I can import
There are Unicode characters in some of my data. It's not a multi-linual database, so the only ones I can find are slanted quotes, probably copied in from Word. Dropping them is fine; the information in the fields will still be understandable.
Can I convert these Unicode characters to their (ANSI? ASCII?) equivalents? I've not dealt with encodings very much.
I tried playing around with iconv, but without knowing anything about the encoding, it didn't really help.
Right now, I need help on: - converting the characters in my database so they export non-unicode-ish-ly - OR, converting the unicode characters after the file has been exporting.
The file created by Access/VBA is UTF-16. For some reason, there is a character at the beginning of the file that was causing the Ruby YAML library to parse wrongly.
iconv to the rescue!
iconv -f UTF-16 -t ASCII -c utf_file.yml > ascii_file.yml
How are you exporting? Have defined an export spec? In Access 2003, this gives you a dropdown list with all the usual encodings (code pages), including Unicode UTF8. This is also how you define your memo field as having a length greater than 255 characters.
Export to .xml
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/727583/export-ms-access-memo-field-and-convert-unicode