Re: [Obo-format] OBO file character encoding

[Chris M. <cj...@fr...>]

John did some research on the various issues here, I'll have to dig  
through emails to find them

I think the recommendation would be to avoid non-ascii where possible  
- most downstream consumers of obo files will react unpredictably

On Feb 7, 2008, at 6:54 AM, Jim Balhoff wrote:

> Is there a place to specify the character encoding within an OBO
> file?  Or is there a required character encoding which OBO files
> should use?  We have an ontology (really just a list of terms at this
> point) with some Spanish names in it.  The OBO parser in Phenote isn't
> reading in correctly, and as far as I can tell the parser doesn't
> specify any encoding when reading.
>
> I haven't found any documentation on this at the GO website.
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
>
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