[rt-users] Spreeadsheet, utf-8 and ms excel

[Kenneth Crocker]

Nicola,


	When you save your spreadsheet, what do you have in the "save as type" 
dropdown? Make sure it is NOT ",txt" or anything other than ".xls".


Kenn
LBNL

On 5/1/2008 8:50 AM, Mailing List SVR wrote:
> Il giorno gio, 01/05/2008 alle 09.55 -0400, Jesse Vincent ha scritto:
>> On May 1, 2008, at 8:21 AM, Mailing List SVR wrote:
>>> When export a search result as tsv spreedsheet ms excel doesn't  
>>> properly
>>> display non ASCII characters:
>>>
>>> for example ò is displayed as ò
>>>
>>> and so on,
>>>
>> Nicola, What RT are you testing with?
> 
> Thanks for your quick answer,
> 
> I'm using rt 3.6.5 on centos 5.1,
> 
> I quickly looked at 3.6.6 code and doesn't seem there are changes
> related to spreeadsheet generation
> 
> If I open the tsv file with notepad and save it as unicode and then I
> open the file with ms excel all is fine,
> 
> If I open with openoffice calc and import as utf-8 all is fine,
> 
> even if I change content_type from application/vnd.ms-excel to text/csv
> in Results.csv source file and then I import the generated tsv in ms
> excel and specify utf-8 encoding all is fine 
> 
> maybe some header in missing in tsv generation
> 
>>> the exported file is utf-8 encoded but I think this info isn't  
>>> passed to ms excel.
>>>
>>> any hint?
>>>
>>> regards
>>> Nicola
>>>
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