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    Excel to Google Earth

    Dear All,
    I found a sample of excel spreadsheet on internet contain a VBA to create a KML file and generate google earth , this VBA works fine , but pop-up balloons on google earth show me just the English Language as it but the Arabic Language Letters shown as unknown font , please how can edit VBA to let pop-up balloons show me the Arabic Language Names in Arabic Language or other Language ?
    please see attached file

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    Re: Excel to Google Earth

    Hello Hassan
    It seems you forgot to attach your file ...
    Have you examined Regional Settings from Control Panel and make sure you have chosen Arabic?
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    Re: Excel to Google Earth

    Dear Yasser, sorry for late ,please see attached file .
    I checked the Region from control panel , it is on my country .

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    Re: Excel to Google Earth

    dear all , I found the solution but I couldn't type it in the VBA code , the solution is to open the KML file with Notepad and save as ... the Encoding must be utf-8 .
    so how can I edit the code in the attached file to add Encoding utf-8 to let google earth read the Arabic language , any help ?

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    Re: Excel to Google Earth

    dear all , I need a help to Re-type the code in the attached file to save the Encoding in utf-8 to let pop-up place mark in google earth read Arabic language .

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    Re: Excel to Google Earth

    dear Forum Expert , can you help me ?

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    Re: Excel to Google Earth

    You can use this CreateTextFile method

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    Check attached file with the updated code.
    ExportToGoogleEarth test1.xlsm

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    Re: Excel to Google Earth

    I forgot to remove the "STOP" statement while debugging. You can remove it yourself. Check attached.

    ExportToGoogleEarth test1.xlsm

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