There's no reason you shouldn't be able to write out the strings you
have shown, but it's possible that by pasting the strings into email,
you have stripped out some problematic characters.
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set obs 1
gen x="`IPAD AD DOBOJ"
file open f using /f.txt, write replace
file write f _n "`=x[1]'"
file close _all
type /f.txt
`IPAD AD DOBOJ
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works, so the string as shown is fine. Do you need the special
characters in the names--they are not readable as is, anyway, right?
Unless you specify a Bosnian font for only the Bosnian names, which is
not possible for most applications. If you don't need them, see
-findit charlist- for a way to identify them and then zap them with
(for example) the subinstr() function.
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