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jyaul786
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Helper II

Arabic Data Corrupted

‎04-19-2023 11:12 PM

Dear Friends,

 

My Arabic data is being corrupted(displayed in other format) while importing from Oracle database to Power BI, what is the solution for this. Please help

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Ahmedx
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‎04-20-2023 12:27 AM

could you share your pbix-file? Or create an example file which reproduces your issue?

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Ahmedx
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‎04-19-2023 11:22 PM

see my answer here
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Problem-with-special-character-encoding-Possibly-Latin1/m-p...
for arabic you need to use the following code
Text.FromBinary(Text.ToBinary([Column1],1256),TextEncoding.Utf8))

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jyaul786
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In response to Ahmedx

‎04-19-2023 11:50 PM

Thanks for your reply, i tried all  one by one, but still have problem:

 

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