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JakubWiniarczk
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PowerQuery - Web.Page(File.Contents) - encoding

‎03-01-2020 12:08 PM

Hey Everyone !

 

I need some help with 'Web.Page(File.Contents' in Power Query. I'm importing some .html file which has xml structure. In the file I can see information about encoding and xml stadard:

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1250"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

 

But when I imported it in PowerBI,  I have a problem with encoding ( polish characters ). 

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Do you have any idea how to fix it ?

Thanks !

 

Regards ! 

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Greg_Deckler
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‎03-01-2020 01:56 PM

Curious why you are using File.Contents instead of XML.Document? XML.Document you can specify the encoding:

 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerquery-m/xml-document

 



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JakubWiniarczk
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In response to Greg_Deckler

‎03-01-2020 09:54 PM

Hye,

 

thanks for the quick reply.

When I tried to open HTML file like XML - system automatically changing   xml.content into web.page file content.

When I've changed the file extension for .xml - there is some problem with correctly parsing so I can't use it. 

 

Regards! 

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JakubWiniarczk
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In response to JakubWiniarczk

‎03-02-2020 07:35 AM

Hey

 

I fixed the problem by converting a file from windows-1250 into UTF via iconv ( linux ).

Thanks a lot! 

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