Re: iconv is messing up a spreadsheet generated by the Spreadsheet Excel Writer

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On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Thodoris <tgol@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>  Is there any chance its characters creeping in from being copied from a
>> M$ program? I found that M$ software uses it's own character encodings
>> for multibyte characters which causes no end of problems for web-based
>> systems. A lot of it was where angled quotation marks were added my
>> Word, and not encoded using the UTF encodings, but the M$-style ones
>> instead.
>>
>>
>> Ash
>> www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>>
>>
>>
>
> Well this not the case...
>
> This is a client list that is being exported from the mysql table and there
> is a whole web site that inserts, updates and manipulates in general this
> table. But all the data are being validated. The only thing that might be
> causing this is that you may import data massively using a csv file and I
> manged to resolve the encoding problem by asking the user to define it while
> importing.
>
> The thing that troubles me is that all data are imported correctly and
> something like a special character or something that Excel doesn't think is
> right a messing all up.
>
> I am really stuck so any help could be very useful...
>
> --
> Thodoris
>
>
Could you base64encode() the data? Or try HtmlEntities()? Is it text data
that is causing the issue?

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