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Tsanka
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10 years ago

Export 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 ...
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Tsanka
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10 years ago

If 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.

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morph268
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10 years ago

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:

 

https://excel.uservoice.com/forums/304933-excel-for-mac/suggestions/9783765-support-utf-8-for-csv-import-export

 

https://excel.uservoice.com/forums/304921-excel-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/14154036-automatically-recognize-unicode-csv-file-automatic

 

Which probably would benefit a larger audience, since lots of people complain about that:

 

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6002256/is-it-possible-to-force-excel-recognize-utf-8-csv-files-automatically.

just my $0.02 :)