During a Blender load, you may run into issues when Employee Names contain special characters (such as accented letters). The characters on these records will return unrecognisable - usually displayed as a question mark in a diamond box:
This is because by default, Excel exports csv files using old encoding called Windows-1252.
To get around this issue, you can Save As the csv file with the encoding type 'UTF-8':
However, this may not be possible in older versions of Excel where UTF-8 is not an option in the dropdown list. If this is the case, then you will need to follow these steps:
- Click on the Save As button
- To the left of the Save button, you will see Tools - click this and choose Web Options:
- Select the Encoding tab and save the document as Unicode (UTF-8):
Once this encoding has been selected, the Blender load will recognise the special characters, and they will appear as expected.
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