Excel to CSV with UTF8 encoding [closed]

Answer 1

"nevets1219" is right about Google docs, however if you simply "import" the file it often does not convert it to UTF-8.

But if you import the CSV into an existing Google spreadsheet it does convert to UTF-8.

Here's a recipe:

• On the main Docs (or Drive) screen click the "Create" button and choose "Spreadsheet"
• From the "File" menu choose "Import"
• Click "Choose File"
• Choose "Replace spreadsheet"
• Choose whichever character you are using as a Separator
• Click "Import"
• From the "File" menu choose "Download as" -> CSV (current sheet)

The resulting file will be in UTF-8

Answer 2

A second option to "nevets1219" is to open your CSV file in Notepad++ and do a convertion to ANSI.

Choose in the top menu : Encoding -> Convert to Ansi

Answer 3

I've found OpenOffice's spreadsheet application, Calc, is really good at handling CSV data.

In the "Save As..." dialog, click "Format Options" to get different encodings for CSV. LibreOffice works the same way AFAIK.

Answer 4

Assuming an Windows environment, save and work with the file as usual in Excel but then open up the saved Excel file in Gnome Gnumeric (free). Save Gnome Gnumeric's spreadsheet as CSV which - for me anyway - saves it as UTF-8 CSV.

Answer 5

I have the same problem and come across this add in , and it works perfectly fine in excel 2013 beside excel 2007 and 2010 which it is mention for.

Answer 6

1. Save the Excel sheet as "Unicode Text (.txt)". The good news is that all the international characters are in UTF16 (note, not in UTF8). However, the new "*.txt" file is TAB delimited, not comma delimited, and therefore is not a true CSV.

2. (optional) Unless you can use a TAB delimited file for import, use your favorite text editor and replace the TAB characters with commas ",".

3. Import your *.txt file in the target application. Make sure it can accept UTF16 format.

If UTF-16 has been properly implemented with support for non-BMP code points, that you can convert a UTF-16 file to UTF-8 without losing information. I leave it to you to find your favourite method of doing so.

I use this procedure to import data from Excel to Moodle.