c#, Excel + csv: how to get the correct encoding?

Question

I\'ve been trying this for quite a while now, but can\'t figure it out. I\'m trying to export data to Excel via a *.csv file. It works great so far, but I have some encodi

Answer 1

For my scenario using StreamWriter I found explicitly passing UTF8 encoding to the StreamWriter enabled excel to read the file using the correct encoding.

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