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Answer by lpinto.eu for Is it possible to force Excel recognize UTF-8 CSV...

I faced the same problem a few days ago, and could not find any solution because I cannot use the import from csv feature because it makes everything to be styled as string. My solution was to first...

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Answer by pakalbekim for Is it possible to force Excel recognize UTF-8 CSV...

I tried everything I could find on this thread and similar, nothing worked fully. However, importing to google sheets and simply downloading as csv worked like a charm. Try it out if you come to my...

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Answer by Christopher Adi Pascual for Is it possible to force Excel recognize...

You can convert .csv file to UTF-8 with BOM via Notepad++: Open the file in Notepad++. Go to menu Encoding→Convert to UTF-8. Go to menu File→Save. Close Notepad++. Open the file in Excel . Worked in...

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Answer by praaveen for Is it possible to force Excel recognize UTF-8 CSV...

hi i'm using ruby on rails for csv generation. In our application we plan to go for the multi language(I18n) and we faced an issue while viewing I18n content in the CSV file of windows excel. Was fine...

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Answer by yoyo for Is it possible to force Excel recognize UTF-8 CSV files...

I am generating csv files from a simple C# application and had the same problem. My solution was to ensure the file is written with UTF8 encoding, like so: // Use UTF8 encoding so that Excel is ok with...

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Answer by Nestor Urquiza for Is it possible to force Excel recognize UTF-8...

As I posted on http://thinkinginsoftware.blogspot.com/2017/12/correctly-generate-csv-that-excel-can.html: Tell the software developer in charge of generating the CSV to correct it. As a quick...

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Answer by Dan for Is it possible to force Excel recognize UTF-8 CSV files...

Download & install LibreOffice Calc Open the csv file of your choice in LibreOffice Calc Thank the heavens that an import text wizard shows up... ...select your delimiter and character encoding...

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Answer by CannedMoose for Is it possible to force Excel recognize UTF-8 CSV...

This is not accurately addressing the question but since i stumbled across this and the above solutions didn't work for me or had requirements i couldn't meet, here is another way to add the BOM when...

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Answer by Christoph for Is it possible to force Excel recognize UTF-8 CSV...

A truly amazing list of answers, but since one pretty good one is still missing, I'll mention it here: open the csv file with google sheets and save it back to your local computer as an excel file. In...

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Answer by TheCharlatan for Is it possible to force Excel recognize UTF-8 CSV...

Yes, this is possible. As previously noted by multiple users, there seems to be a problem with excel reading the correct Byte Order Mark when the file is encoded in UTF-8. With UTF-16 it does not seem...

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Answer by Elmue for Is it possible to force Excel recognize UTF-8 CSV files...

It is incredible that there are so many answers but none answers the question: "When I was asking this question, I asked for a way of opening a UTF-8 CSV file in Excel without any problems for a...

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Answer by Cloudranger for Is it possible to force Excel recognize UTF-8 CSV...

If you want to make it fully automatic, one click, or to load automatically into Excel from say a web page, but can't generate proper Excel files, then I would suggest looking at SYLK format as an...

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Answer by Wagner Bertolini Junior for Is it possible to force Excel recognize...

Just for help users interested on opening the file on Excel that achieve this thread like me. I have used the wizard below and it worked fine for me, importing an UTF-8 file. Not transparent, but...

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Answer by Aki for Is it possible to force Excel recognize UTF-8 CSV files...

Old question but heck, the simplest solution is: Open CSV in Notepad Save As -> select the right encoding Open the new file

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Answer by zax for Is it possible to force Excel recognize UTF-8 CSV files...

Yes it is possible. When writing the stream creating the csv, the first thing to do is this: myStream.Write(Encoding.UTF8.GetPreamble(), 0, Encoding.UTF8.GetPreamble().Length)

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Answer by Ixtlilton for Is it possible to force Excel recognize UTF-8 CSV...

Had the same problems with PHP-generated CSV files. Excel ignored the BOM when the Separator was defined via "sep=,\n" at the beginning of the content (but of course after the BOM). So adding a BOM...

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Answer by Nobilis for Is it possible to force Excel recognize UTF-8 CSV files...

This is my working solution: vbFILEOPEN = "your_utf8_file.csv" Workbooks.OpenText Filename:=vbFILEOPEN, DataType:=xlDelimited, Semicolon:=True, Local:=True, Origin:=65001 The key is Origin:=65001

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Answer by Steve Jessop for Is it possible to force Excel recognize UTF-8 CSV...

I have had the same issue in the past (how to produce files that Excel can read, and other tools can also read). I was using TSV rather than CSV, but the same problem with encodings came up. I failed...

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Answer by sshturma for Is it possible to force Excel recognize UTF-8 CSV...

The bug with ignored BOM seems to be fixed for Excel 2013. I had same problem with Cyrillic letters, but adding BOM character \uFEFF did help.

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Answer by Rex for Is it possible to force Excel recognize UTF-8 CSV files...

This is an old question but I've just encountered had a similar problem and the solution may help others: Had the same issue where writing out CSV text data to a file, then opening the resulting .csv...

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