topic Re: Problem in joining hindi string in attribute table from excel sheet using ArcPy in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/problem-in-joining-hindi-string-in-attribute-table/m-p/224177#M17316 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I would try joining to a geodatabase featureclass or table.&nbsp; A shapefile predates how unicode character counts are treated.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 16 Jun 2020 09:12:42 GMT DanPatterson 2020-06-16T09:12:42Z Problem in joining hindi string in attribute table from excel sheet using ArcPy https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/problem-in-joining-hindi-string-in-attribute-table/m-p/224176#M17315 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>I am trying to join excel sheet to shapefile attribute table using ArcPy, in the excel sheet there is a column which contains long hindi string. The maximum length of a text in attribute table is 254 but the hindi string is not joining with 254 characters instead the attribute table store only 107 characters approx.</P><P>When trying with english it store 254 characters.</P><P></P><P><IMG alt="" class="jive-emoji image-1 jive-image j-img-original" src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/496237_Capture1.PNG" />&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;This is the Excel sheet containing a long hindi string.</P><P></P><P><IMG alt="" class="jive-emoji jive-image image-2 j-img-original" src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/496241_Capture.PNG" /></P><P>This is the attribute table after joining the excel sheet like this it is not storing with max length 254 characters, it is only storing 107 characters.&nbsp;</P><P>How to do it please help.</P><P></P><P>Thank you!</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 11 Jun 2020 16:23:46 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/problem-in-joining-hindi-string-in-attribute-table/m-p/224176#M17315 PratyakshVijay 2020-06-11T16:23:46Z Re: Problem in joining hindi string in attribute table from excel sheet using ArcPy https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/problem-in-joining-hindi-string-in-attribute-table/m-p/224177#M17316 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I would try joining to a geodatabase featureclass or table.&nbsp; A shapefile predates how unicode character counts are treated.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 16 Jun 2020 09:12:42 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/problem-in-joining-hindi-string-in-attribute-table/m-p/224177#M17316 DanPatterson 2020-06-16T09:12:42Z