<div class="gmail_quote">On 25 November 2011 14:04, Sven Van Caekenberghe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sven@beta9.be">sven@beta9.be</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On 25 Nov 2011, at 13:47, Johan Brichau wrote:<br>
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> It's an Excel thing.<br>
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> UTF16 is required for a csv file to be opened correctly by excel on both windows and mac platforms<br>
> The csv file also needs to use tabs as separators to make it work correctly.<br>
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> UTF8 does not work for Excel in that case.<br>
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> I cannot remember where I puzzled that information together,<br>
> but I do remember it's one of those things that took a long time to find out…<br>
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Interesting, don't we all just love those MS products ?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The funny thing is, 'C' in CSV stands for 'Comma'. </div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br>Milan Mimica<br>
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