Re: UTF-8 support on CSV

[Martin Goebel <x-...@gmx.de>]

Hi!

By my experience Excel behaves strange, handling CSV.
Opening CSV by double-click leads to someting like a convenience-mode. 
This way Excel don't cares about the right charset, or has the wrong 
default respectively.

Rename the file to .txt and select the file with the same filter 
(Textfiles *.prn, *.txt, *.csv). then you will get a dialog, where you 
can choose delimiters, charset and field-types. Now you can select 
UTF-8! But only since Ofice 2003. I have to work with an Office 2000, 
partly. It can't deal with UTF-8 at all, reading from text-files.

I would think about writing an Excel File with POI/HSSF to avoid these 
Problems.

Regards, mago

Shibu Kumar Nair schrieb:
> Hi all,
>
>  
>
> I have a struts 2 application from which user can download CSV file. 
>
> The problem is 
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>             I download the CSV on the website then save to desktop of my
> computer and Open it on NOTEPAD... 
>
> that works fine I could still see all the utf-8 text OK with no problem, but
> if I open the CSV file in Microsoft EXCEL, 
>
> all the  utf-8 text are no longer readable. 
>
>  
>
> Does any one have the solution for this, how could I make it readable in MS
> Excel 
>
> I am using org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils 
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> FileUtils.writeStringToFile(file, test); 
>
> i also tried it with 
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> FileUtils.writeStringToFile(file, test,encoding) method 
>
> Still the problem exists
>
>  
>
>  
>
> Regards
>
> Shibu
>
>
>   


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