Encoding issues for UTF8 CSV file when opening Excel and TextEdit

Question

I recently added a CSV-download button that takes data from database (Postgres) an array from server (Ruby on Rails), and turns it into a CSV file on the client side (Javasc

Answer 1

It could be a problem in your server encoding.

You could try (assuming locale english US) if you are running Linux:

sudo locale-gen en_US en_US.UTF-8
dpkg-reconfigure locales