Excel to CSV with UTF8 encoding [closed]

Answer 1

The only "easy way" of doing this is as follows. First, realize that there is a difference between what is displayed and what is kept hidden in the Excel .csv file.

1. Open an Excel file where you have the info (.xls, .xlsx)
2. In Excel, choose "CSV (Comma Delimited) (*.csv) as the file type and save as that type.
3. In NOTEPAD (found under "Programs" and then Accessories in Start menu), open the saved .csv file in Notepad
4. Then choose -> Save As... and at the bottom of the "save as" box, there is a select box labelled as "Encoding". Select UTF-8 (do NOT use ANSI or you lose all accents etc). After selecting UTF-8, then save the file to a slightly different file name from the original.

This file is in UTF-8 and retains all characters and accents and can be imported, for example, into MySQL and other database programs.

This answer is taken from this forum.

Answer 2

Another one I've found useful: "Numbers" allows encoding-settings when saving as CSV.

Answer 3

What about using Powershell.

Get-Content 'C:\my.csv' | Out-File 'C:\my_utf8.csv' -Encoding UTF8

Answer 4

open .csv fine with notepad++. if you see your encoding is good (you see all characters as they should be) press encoding , then convert to ANSI else - find out what is your current encoding

Answer 5

Easiest way: No need Open office and google docs

1. Save your file as "Unicode text file";
2. now you have an unicode text file
3. open it with "notepad" and "Save as" it with selecting "utf-8" or other code page that you want
4. rename file extension from "txt" to "csv". This will result in a tab-delimited UTF-8 csv file.
5. If you want a comma-delimited file, open the csv file you just renamed and replace all tabs with commas. To do this in Notepad on Win 10, simply select one tab field then click Ctrl+H. In the window that opens, type a comma , in the "Replace with" field then click "Replace All". Save your file. The result will be a comma-delimited UTF-8 csv file.

Don't open it with MS-Office anyway!!! Now you have a tab delimited CSV file. Or, a comma-delimited one if you applied step number 5.

Answer 6

I have written a small Python script that can export worksheets in UTF-8.

You just have to provide the Excel file as first parameter followed by the sheets that you would like to export. If you do not provide the sheets, the script will export all worksheets that are present in the Excel file.

#!/usr/bin/env python

# export data sheets from xlsx to csv

from openpyxl import load_workbook
import csv
from os import sys

reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')

def get_all_sheets(excel_file):
    sheets = []
    workbook = load_workbook(excel_file,use_iterators=True,data_only=True)
    all_worksheets = workbook.get_sheet_names()
    for worksheet_name in all_worksheets:
        sheets.append(worksheet_name)
    return sheets

def csv_from_excel(excel_file, sheets):
    workbook = load_workbook(excel_file,use_iterators=True,data_only=True)
    for worksheet_name in sheets:
        print("Export " + worksheet_name + " ...")

        try:
            worksheet = workbook.get_sheet_by_name(worksheet_name)
        except KeyError:
            print("Could not find " + worksheet_name)
            sys.exit(1)

        your_csv_file = open(''.join([worksheet_name,'.csv']), 'wb')
        wr = csv.writer(your_csv_file, quoting=csv.QUOTE_ALL)
        for row in worksheet.iter_rows():
            lrow = []
            for cell in row:
                lrow.append(cell.value)
            wr.writerow(lrow)
        print(" ... done")
    your_csv_file.close()

if not 2 <= len(sys.argv) <= 3:
    print("Call with " + sys.argv[0] + " <xlxs file> [comma separated list of sheets to export]")
    sys.exit(1)
else:
    sheets = []
    if len(sys.argv) == 3:
        sheets = list(sys.argv[2].split(','))
    else:
        sheets = get_all_sheets(sys.argv[1])
    assert(sheets != None and len(sheets) > 0)
    csv_from_excel(sys.argv[1], sheets)