How to avoid garbled characters when importing

hyudolee

Hi, I want to import csv file which has Shift-JIS encoding which is Unique code in Japan.

I have a problem the text has "(株)", "No.".

No.

��

I think this text is windows's environment-dependent character.

So I changed the import setting from Shift-JIS to windows-31, and I could solve it.

Does anybody faced this problem?

I'm afraid that I will face another problem because of this change.

Of course, if I use UTF-8, I can solve it.

But the customer's excel was old, so I have to chose this encoding.

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Valtierra112

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Hi, I want to import csv file which has Shift-JIS encoding which is Unique code in Japan.
I have a problem the text has "(株)", "No.".
<Data source>
No.
<Anaplan>
��

I think this text is windows's environment-dependent character.
So I changed the import setting from Shift-JIS to windows-31, and I could solve it.

Does anybody faced this problem?
I'm afraid that I will face another problem because of this change.

Of course, if I use UTF-8, I can solve it.
But the customer's excel was old, so I have to chose this encoding.

It is also worth knowing about BOM - Byte Order Markers. Notepad under Windows, and EditPlus will give different output files when saving "hello, world" as UTF-8. The Notepad version will be three bytes longer, and yet both are technically correct (though redundant for UTF-8).

It can cause problems when importing UTF-8 data into applications that do not take the BOM into account, when non-technical end-users use the only tool they have available for generating or converting UTF-8 data on Windows.

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