Re: Unicode in Excel 2000

From: Bob Leschorn (blesch@cix.compulink.co.uk)
Date: Tue Oct 03 2000 - 08:17:12 EDT

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In article <200010022031.MAA21700@unicode.org>, peck@spss.com (Peck, Jon)
wrote:

> A little off topic...
>
> Does anyone know whether Excel can read a Unicode CSV-format file?
> Although
> such a file opens in Word 2000 fine, Excel seems terminally confused,
> whether fed utf-16 or utf-8. The only documentation I could find seems
> to
> consider Unicode files and csv files as separate categories.
>
> TIA
>
> Kim Peck
> SPSS Inc

Actually, I found that if the file is named *.CSV, Excel gets confused. If
it is named *.TXT, it imports OK. Bizarre.

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