Making an Igbo word list

1. I chose my Igbo text in the text file chooser.

2. Then I tested whether it was already in Unicode by pressing the button . The answer came that it was in UTF8 (a combination of one-byte and two-byte systems, not compatible with WordSmith 4) and an offer to convert it.

3. I converted it to 16-bit Unicode (what MS Word calls "Unicode" if you save as .txt).

Then I made sure the language had Unicode checked.

4. Then I made my word list in the usual way (WordList | New ...).

Here is a shot of the frequency list. I increase font size to 12 so you can see the dots under O and I and U.

I don't know Igbo and therefore cannot be sure the word order is correct. At the moment WordSmith "thinks" this is English so it is sorted in English word order,