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Tsanka
Kudo Collector
Kudo CollectorExport to Excel - UTF-8
Hi Our end users are complaining that when they export data from PowerBI and open it in Excel, the text with cyrillic letters is not readable. This is due to the fact that the export is in UTF-8 ...
morph268
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft EmployeeBecause it will break for characters which can't be represented in ANSI <for example: Chinese, Korean etc>
TsankaKudo Collector
Kudo CollectorIf the problem is recognized by the PowerBI team, a solution can be found and delivered.
And the problem exists - the current export is clumsy for those unlucky to have data in encoding different from Win-1252.
- morph268
Well, what I am trying to say is that instead of asking Power BI to have workaround which have 0 workaround in some situation.
You could probably vote for the following:
Which probably would benefit a larger audience, since lots of people complain about that:
just my $0.02 :)