encoding problems ?

  • Hi i have two problems with the export tool maybe you can help :

    1) i cannot set a field delimiter for the exported csv, because the fields uses coma separator and there’s comas in the text, i suspect i cause problems… is it possible to set another separator ?

    2) the accent are not taken in utf8. As we use french all accent are transformed on the csv file (for example : journée is transformed as journ??e).

    I don’t know what to do, could you help me ? thanks a lot and have a nice day

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  • Plugin Author Michael Simpson

    (@msimpson)

    (1) Comma in the text should not be a problem because all the entries are quoted like:

    "Value 1", "value 2, which as a comma inside the quotes", "value 3"

    And quotes inside the value should be escaped as well.

    (2) Generally I find the accents work for me, but my MySQL DB table for CFDB is set to UTF-8. The resulting export file should be UTF-8 but if it is not stored that way in the DB, it might get mixed up.

    Thread Starter numero7

    (@numero7)

    Hi i think it’s a excell problem, iv’e downloaded openoffice and the file is correctly displayed… i don’t know why.

    anyway thanks a lot for your quick reply.

    Plugin Author Michael Simpson

    (@msimpson)

    Excel might expect the BOM characters at the beginning of the file. Try using the Excel CSV or Excel TSV exports for that, and Plain CSV for OpenOffice and any other CSV reader.

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