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jyaul786
Helper II
Helper II

Arabic Data Corrupted

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
Super User
Super User

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

Ahmedx
Super User
Super User

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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