CSV export & import

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9 years 5 months ago #321 by roady
CSV export & import was created by roady
Having issues with export/import of CSV files.
In excel it cannot handle utf8 characters and Numbers wont use columns correctly.

Operating system: OSX 10.10
Tools: Excel 14.4.6 and Numbers 3.5


Excel

1.) I2Localization tool export csv file
A file is created with the delimiter ,

2.) Open a new Excel document, choose File -> Import
Select CSV file and import
Note here that I've looked at all import format options,
also tried import (treat consecutive delimiter as one = ")

What happens:
* File is imported correctly into Rows and Columns
* Any utf-8 characters is wrong (example åäö)
* Any multiline gets own row, no linebreak in cell

Try to fix
* Open the exported CSV file in text editor (example Coda)
* Convert tile to utf16
* Import CSV to Excel and choose format "Unicode 6.3 UTF-8"

This will show characters as åäö correctly but still has issues with multilines


Numbers

1.) I2Localization tool export csv file
A file is created with the delimiter ,

2.) Right click on the file and choose Open with -> Numbers

What happens:
* File is imported only as rows, it doesn't handle columns
* Any utf-8 characters is correct

Try to fix
In some way the only csv delimiter that works in Numbers is ;
Edit the file /I2/Localizations/Scripts/Google/LanguageSource_Export_CSV.cs
Set all delimiters to ;

Export a new csv file and load into Numbers. All works as it should with åäö and multiline


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I'm guessing that for Windows and Excel it works as it should but for us Mac users we need a solution.
Maybe when exporting a csv file you can choose the delimiter, or default set ; because Excel can change import settings.
Else have export buttons Export Excel, Export Numbers

I havn't tried to change anything and then import. Hoping that everything works :S

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9 years 5 months ago - 9 years 5 months ago #325 by Frank
Replied by Frank on topic CSV export & import
Hi,
I tested a CSV with the following characters (åäö) in Excel on windows and it worked fine.

I don't have a mac with me at the moment but will test it tomorrow in Numbers.

Although, searching the web it seems that Numbers have a issue with how they implemented the CSV parser. In the following links you can find a way to solve it. They suggest changing the encoding or using one of the programs listed there.

Nonetheless tomorrow I will check if a different enconding works and if so I will add an option to export with that enconding instead of UTF-8 or using ; instead of ,

rothmanshore.com/2013/10/29/solved-editi...8-encoding-on-a-mac/
answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/ma...a2-8482-554ae235227b

Thanks,
Frank

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