Exporting CSV file with hebrew

[shimi]

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 11:30 PM, shimi <linux-il at shimi.net> wrote:

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> 2010/7/31 Ori Idan <ori at helicontech.co.il>
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> I have tested google docs with the same file translated using iconv to
>> UTF-8 and it works great.
>> I still have a problem with excel, my customer claims he can not see the
>> hebrew in the file.
>> Does someone on this list has access to Excel and can tell me how to tell
>> excel the right encoding so it can import the hebrew?
>> I myself don't have access to Exccel and thus can not test it.
>> I can send a sample file.
>>
>> --
>> Ori Idan
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>>
> When you import CSV data in Excel through the Text Import Wizard (Data ->
> External Data -> From Text) [1], one the options there is to state "File
> origin", which is basically a list of all the encodings Windows(R) supports.
> If you tell the importer which encoding it is, and he selects the right
> option (and of course , I *think* it should work.
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Whoops, premature hit on the "send" button, sorry. Last sentence should have
been:

(and of course, the right delimiter options, etc.), I *think* it should
work.

-- Shimi
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