Exporting Characters

spcjb001
 July 20, 2011, 04:22 AM posted in General Discussion

Hi all,

I am new, so apologies if this is a dumb question. When I try to export my saved characters as a CSV file (which automatically opens in Excel), some of the characters come across as "?" and other things.  Is there an easy solution to this?

Any guidance much appreciated.


Cheers

Steve

 

 

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mark
 July 20, 2011, 06:42 AM

You have to pay attention to the character encoding.  Windows will tend to save files as ASCII, but you want to use utf-8 (or another encoding that supports Asian languages).  There should be a pull-down on the save file dialog to let you choose.

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spcjb001

Thanks Mark and Peterning11, both very helpful.

Cheers

Steve

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peterning11
 July 20, 2011, 09:47 AM

Hi Steve, you can open the saved CSV file by using Notepad to display the Chinese characters.