Hi! I have a Data Flow in my Workspace with special characters in one column.
The source encoding is windows 1252.
But when I import it to Power BI Desktop to create a dashboard, the encoding changes, maybe to UTF-8.
I can't figure out when that is happening. Is there an option to set the import encoding to 1252 so I don't lose data?
Thanks
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