Hello:

I'm using Mac Sierra (10.12.5) and Stata 15.0. I have a lot of csv files that I need to import into Stata, but when I do, the Japanese characters for my string variables are scrambled. I tried resetting my OS language to Japanese. Doing so allowed me to open the csv files with Excel with the Japanese appearing correctly, however, I still had the same problem when I directly imported the files into Stata.

I did look into setting the unicode encoding and tried a few other ones out, but I couldn't solve this problem. This is probably a very specific problem, but if anyone has any ideas about what I might do, I would be very appreciative.

Thank you and happy new year.

Best,
Gene Park