ANSI character set and DATs

Is there anyway to get ANSI characters like accented vowels and such to display correctly when I’ve got a text file going into a DAT and feeding a text TOP? It seems like DATs can’t really handle all the special characters, or rather, they don’t get loaded correctly when using a file in DAT, the special characters just get replaced by their ASCII codes (or something like that…) which in turn are what you see in the text TOP

Ok, seems like I’m having a file type issue. I can copy the characters from a text file open in notepad into a text DAT and it maintains things. Just wasn’t saving them as ANSI I think