Answer by StriplingWarrior for Is it possible to force Excel recognize UTF-8...
The UTF-8 Byte-order marker will clue Excel 2007+ in to the fact that you're using UTF-8. (See this SO post). In case anybody is having the same issues I was, .NET's UTF8 encoding class does not output...
View ArticleAnswer by alc for Is it possible to force Excel recognize UTF-8 CSV files...
Simple vba macro for opening utf-8 text and csv files Sub OpenTextFile() filetoopen = Application.GetOpenFilename("Text Files (*.txt;*.csv), *.txt;*.csv") If filetoopen = Null Or filetoopen = Empty...
View ArticleAnswer by e-zinc for Is it possible to force Excel recognize UTF-8 CSV files...
We have used this workaround: Convert CSV to UTF-16 LE Insert BOM at beginning of file Use tab as field separator
View ArticleAnswer by Bragabondio for Is it possible to force Excel recognize UTF-8 CSV...
First save the Excel spreadsheet as Unicode text. Open the TXT file using Internet explorer and click "Save as" TXT Encoding - choose the appropriate encoding, i.e. for Win Cyrillic 1251
View ArticleAnswer by Mark for Is it possible to force Excel recognize UTF-8 CSV files...
Alex is correct, but as you have to export to csv, you can give the users this advice when opening the csv files: Save the exported file as a csv Open Excel Import the data using Data-->Import...
View ArticleIs it possible to force Excel recognize UTF-8 CSV files automatically?
I'm developing a part of an application that's responsible for exporting some data into CSV files. The application always uses UTF-8 because of its multilingual nature at all levels. But opening such...
View ArticleAnswer by vess for Is it possible to force Excel recognize UTF-8 CSV files...
In php you just prepend $bom to your $csv_string:$bom = sprintf( "%c%c%c", 239, 187, 191); // EF BB BF file_put_contents( $file_name, $bom . $csv_string ); Tested with MS Excel 2016, php 7.2.4
View ArticleAnswer by podolinek for Is it possible to force Excel recognize UTF-8 CSV...
Working solution for office 365save in UTF-16 (no LE, BE)use separator \tCode in PHP$header = ['číslo', 'vytvořeno', 'ěščřžýáíé'];$fileName = 'excel365.csv';$fp = fopen($fileName, 'w');fputcsv($fp,...
View ArticleAnswer by Oliver M Grech for Is it possible to force Excel recognize UTF-8...
Just sharing a comprehensive function that might make your life easier working with CSV files.... please note last function argument in relation to this topicfunction array2csv($data, $file = '',...
View ArticleAnswer by Luca Ziegler for Is it possible to force Excel recognize UTF-8 CSV...
Found a solution for ASP.NET Core to download CSV's as UTF8 with POM:byte[] csvBytes = Encoding.Default.GetBytes(csvString);UTF8Encoding utf8 = new UTF8Encoding(true);byte[] bom =...
View ArticleAnswer by Herbert Van-Vliet for Is it possible to force Excel recognize UTF-8...
It's March 2022, and it seems we cannot use both a BOM and the sep=... line.Adding the sep=\t or similar, makes Excel ignore the BOM.Using a semicolon seems to be a default Excel understands, in which...
View ArticleAnswer by fantabolous for Is it possible to force Excel recognize UTF-8 CSV...
In Python, use encoding=utf-8-sig which is Python's name for UTF-8 with BOM. Just utf-8 will not get picked up by Excel or other Microsoft software.From https://docs.python.org/3/library/codecs.html:To...
View ArticleAnswer by ofri cofri for Is it possible to force Excel recognize UTF-8 CSV...
For those that can afford to convert a few files manually, there are some answers here mentioning on how to convert them with Notepad++, but I wanted to add the solution with VS Code (Visual Studio...
View ArticleAnswer by Basj for Is it possible to force Excel recognize UTF-8 CSV files...
15 years later, I finally found the solution: write CSV in UTF-16-LE without BOM, and it will work on Excel 2007+.Example with Python:import csvwith open('test.csv', "w", encoding="utf-16-le",...
View ArticleAnswer by Thomas Ramé for Is it possible to force Excel recognize UTF-8 CSV...
Drastic change I made: instead of providing .csv to my users I provide .xlsx :)Since I was programmatically generating the CSV file and since only humans manipulate those files, there is no reason to...
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