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jyaul12
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Encode/Decode text

Dear Friend,

 

Could you please help, how we can encode column with cp1252 and then decode with cp1256

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v-jianboli-msft
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Community Support

Hi @jyaul12 ,

 

Please try to use power query and transform data like this:

Text.FromBinary(
Text.ToBinary([Column1],1252),1256
)

 

vjianbolimsft_0-1683696081186.png

Refer to:

Solved: Problem with special character encoding (Possibly ... - Microsoft Power BI Community  

 

Best Regards,

Jianbo Li

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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wangweiggsn
New Member

Thanks, seeing your answer I was inspired to solve my problem. I wrote a command like this:

= Json.Document(Text.ToBinary(Text.Replace(Text.FromBinary(File.Contents("C:\20230921_113447\Profit.txt")),"client-value-update:","")))

Have a nice day.

v-jianboli-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @jyaul12 ,

 

Please try to use power query and transform data like this:

Text.FromBinary(
Text.ToBinary([Column1],1252),1256
)

 

vjianbolimsft_0-1683696081186.png

Refer to:

Solved: Problem with special character encoding (Possibly ... - Microsoft Power BI Community  

 

Best Regards,

Jianbo Li

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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