VBA importing UTF-8 CSV file from a web server

Question

I have a UTF-8 CSV file stored on a web server. When I download the file put it on my hard drive and I then import it into an Excel sheet with this macro (from the macro recorde

Answer 1

I have been looking at a similar problem where we import utf-8 encoded csv files in to a worksheet. I am not pulling the data from a web server but this might help.

My solution is to read the utf-8 file to a local variable then insert it into a sheet. I tried saving the data to a temp file with ansi encoding but doing this caused all the characters to lose their accents.

Function ReadUTF8CSVToSheet(file As String)
    Dim ws As Worksheet
    Dim strText As String

    ' read utf-8 file to strText variable
   With CreateObject("ADODB.Stream")
        .Open
        .Type = 1  ' Private Const adTypeBinary = 1
        .LoadFromFile file
        .Type = 2  ' Private Const adTypeText = 2
        .Charset = "utf-8"
        strText = .ReadText(-1)  ' Private Const adReadAll = -1
    End With

    ' parse strText data to a sheet
    Set ws = Sheets.Add()
    intRow = 1
    For Each strLine In Split(strText, chr(10))
        If strLine <> "" Then
            With ws
                .Cells(intRow, 1) = strLine
                .Cells(intRow, 1).TextToColumns Destination:=Cells(intRow, 1), DataType:=xlDelimited, _
                    TextQualifier:=xlDoubleQuote, ConsecutiveDelimiter:=False, Tab:=False, _
                    Semicolon:=False, Comma:=True, Space:=False, Other:=False
            End With

            intRow = intRow + 1
        End If
    Next strLine

    ReadUTF8CSVToSheet = ws.Name

End Function

' to run
strSheetName = ReadUTF8CSVToSheet("C:\temp\utf8file.csv")