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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
could you share your pbix-file? Or create an example file which reproduces your issue?
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))
Thanks for your reply, i tried all one by one, but still have problem:
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