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Alvarom1
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Change Encoding

Hi,

 

I have issues with the characters when importing from from .txt file.

 

When it is a single file that I use is fine, I go into Query Settings / Applied Steps and I have the option to change the encoding (65001 is the one that solves my issue) at CSV import

 

But when I import from a folder, several .txt files, I do not have that option (CSV import) in the Query Steps.

 

Any idea on how to do that?

 

thanks

 

Alvaro

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Anonymous
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Hi @Alvarom1,

If you get data from the folder, it will use similar configures to get data from all folder items. I'd like to suggest you write a custom function to iterate all files in folder with CSV connector and combine transformed files.

If you confused about coding formula, can you please share some dummy data for test?

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Xiaoxin Sheng

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