I've just tried the Unicode one again and this time I got it to work. I don't know what I did differently in terms of my typing in your code plus the file name.

Recuerdo igual que si fuera hoy el día que llegué. Había hecho el viaje en tren con otros cinco compañeros novatos, y al bajar en la estación fuimos al hotel Condal, donde habíamos reservado habitaciones.

-------- ----- --- -- ----- --- -- -í- --- -----é. ---í- ----- -- ----- -- ---- --- ----- ----- -----ñ---- -------, - -- ----- -- -- ------ó- ------ -- ----- ------, ----- ---í---- --------- ------------.

As you can see there's still the letters with accents but if that can't be changed no worries and thank you very much for what you've done.

In reply to Re^4: Converting a passage of Spanish into hyphens and spaces by UKhombre
in thread Converting a passage of Spanish into hyphens and spaces by UKhombre

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