problem with csv import

  • hgilhoj

    (@hgilhoj)


    9 years ago

    I have a problem when I try to import a CSV file.
    I have a file where some of the field entries contain Danish characters.

    If I merely take an excel sheet and convert it to CSV, the records with Danish characters are not imported. The other records come in just fine with all fields intact.

    In order to get the Danish characters in, I saved the CSV as UTF-8 using Notepad. Now all records appear but the first field of each record is blank.

    What am I missing?

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  • Plugin Author xnau webdesign

    (@xnau)

    When you export your CSV from Excel, you need to configure it to export it as UTF-8, it won’t do this by default.

    If you need to do it with Notepad, make sure the format is correct: don’t start a line with a comma, for instance.

    Thread Starter hgilhoj

    (@hgilhoj)

    I have tried all possible (and probably impossible ways) of converting to CSV and UFT8. I cannot see any odd characters in the files.

    One place recommended to save first from excel to unicode. Then opening in Notepad and saving as UTF-8. But no matter how I do it the import bluntly ignores the data in the first column and leaves it blank. The Danish characters and all other columns are imported ok.

    I have finally found a workaround. Apparently Google spreadsheet makes the correct conversion and it works like a charm. So if others run into problems, this will do the trick.

    I had this same problem. Even though I saved the CSV from Excel (2010) and selected Unicode(UTF-8) in Tools – Web options, it consistently ignored the first column.

    I happened to re-open the CSV file in Notepad++ which indicated the encoding was actually “UTF-8-BOM”. Notepad++ has the ability to convert the encoding so it changed it to UTF-8 alone. Now it imports into PDB as I would expect. Seems Excel does not quite “do what it says on the tin”.

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