Make Excel Default For Csv Mac Codepages Fell

It will give you trouble if you Open the CSV with Excel and then save.

There is a new format in the save dialog CSV UTF-8 (Comma delimited) which is distinct from Comma Separated Values which is also still in there.

Best of all it appears if there is a BOM, it leaves it, if there isnt it doesnt add one.

However, if there is a need for any sort of non-ASCII character, there is some work ahead.

If your codepage doesnt support a character in your document, it will be silently replaced with an underscore character.

There is no way to tell the difference between different 8-bit codepages programatically.

We chose to present the user with previews of the most likely codepages, and let them pick the correct one.

Make Excel Default For Csv Mac Codepages Fell

One should note that the Mac codepages fell out of use with OS 9, almost 15 years ago.

This problem has persisted in every version of Mac Excel up to the current Excel 2016.

This is deceptive because once saved the text will remain correctly encoded UTF-8, but bizarrely the BOM will be stripped causing the file to no longer be correctly readable.

Ive seen this cause all sorts of headaches because it appears to work but does not.

However, if you provide clear instructions to Windows users to save their filename in quotes with a CSV extension such as example.csv it is workable.

Easy and FREE Also: when your system already exports a csv file and you frequently need to edit them, your doing it wrong.

Donat on Jun. 30, 2016 You forget how much mistrust there is for free software, particularly when dealing with confidential information.

Comment by: evonsdesigns on Dec.

I was able to import correctly to excel by adding uFEFF to the beginning of the file I was sending to the client from the server.

Comment by: Jesse G Donat on Dec.

FEFF is a UTF-16BE (Big Endian) Byte Order Mark (BOM) used to indicate encoding.

Was your CSV content similarly UTF-16BE I just tested a sample UTF-16BE CSV on Windows and Mac.

Comment by: David Giorgi on Jan.

If you have an old version of Excel on Mac (eg Microsoft Office 2008), use LibreOffice instead 1 Open XLSX file in libre office 2 Export as CSV set filters to UTF8 encoding 3 Open again in Libre office and save as XLSX Comment by: J Peraita on Jan.

If, instead of double clicking to open the file, you use Excels Data, From text option, to import the file, you can select the encoding.

It handles nicely UTF-8 with no BOM (in Windows, at least) Comment by: leejh3224 on Mar.

Amazing You saved my time Thanks a lot for a great tip Comment by: Cristian on Mar.

You could at least use the extension.tsv (tab-separated values) instead of the misleading.csv.

Comment by: anninosaka on May.

Use Table Tools for mac (free in the App store) for csv files.

Comment by: Murphy on Jul.

Thanks for this, it saved me a lot of time and effort Comment by: Malc on Jul.

The database software I am using has the options to export to CSV with default, Unicode, UTF-8, UTF-8 - BOM, ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-9, ISO-8859-15, ISO-8859-16 and ASCII encodings, so unless the default option or the unicode option is UTF-16LE, it looks like I will have to continue avoiding the use of accented characters.

Comment by: Ev. Drikos on Aug.

Nice tip, helped me exchange tab delimited files containing greek text between Windows Mac versions of Excel and at the same time such.csv files are imported into Excel for Windows silently with a double click.

Regarding Excel for Mac, a VB script can likely save tab delimited unicode files with the extension.csv and also bypass any warning messages on save and on exit.

As an amateur in VB, I added such a script along with a custom button to a template named Personal.xlsb.

Thanks, Ev. Drikos Comment by: heriberto perez on Sep.

UTF-8 with a BOM isnt a real solution.

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