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Praat will from then on save your text files in the UTF-8 format, which means one byte for every ASCII character and 2 to 4 bytes for every non-ASCII character. in the Preferences submenu of the Praat menu, and there set the output encoding to UTF-8. What you can do is go to Text writing preferences. non-ASCII) characters, you may be in trouble, because Praat will write the Table as an UTF-16 text file, and not all of the programs just mentioned can read such files yet. But if your Table contains any other (i.e. If you want to export your Table to Microsoft Excel or to SPSS, or if you want your TextGrid file to be read by somebody else's Perl script, then there will be no problem if your Table contains only ASCII characters (see above). What if my other programs cannot read UTF-16 text files? Many programs can read such text files, for instance NotePad, WordPad, Microsoft Word, and TextWrangler. or Save, Praat will write an UTF-16 text file, which is a text file in which every character is encoded in two bytes (and some very rare characters in four bytes). If your TextGrid (or Table, or script, or Info window.) contains one or more characters that cannot be encoded as ASCII, for instance West-European characters such as åçéöß¿, East-European characters such as čłőšůź, or Hebrew characters such as אבגםוֹוּ, then when you say Save as text file. All programs that can read plain text files can read such files produced by Praat. or Save, Praat will write an ASCII text file, which is a text file in which every character is encoded in a single byte (8 bits). If your TextGrid (or Table, or script, or Info window.) contains only characters that can be encoded as ASCII, namely the characters ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ^_` abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz~, then when you say Save as text file. For this reason, Praat saves its text files in one of two possible formats: ASCII or UTF-16. Praat is becoming a fully international program: the texts in Praat's TextGrids, Tables, scripts, or Info window (and elsewhere) can contain many types of characters (see special symbols).