Error: reinterpret: encoding 'utf-8' is not available or recognized.

[GoogleCodeExporter]

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.Load xlsx file with encoding issues (garbled mess instead of accented 
characters)
2. Attemp to Transform using value.reinterpret("utf-8")

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The expected output would be either fixed text or at least the same text. All i 
get is: "Error: reinterpret: encoding 'utf-8' is not available or recognized."
What version of Google Refine are you using?
Version 2.0 [r1836]

What operating system and browser are you using?
Windows XP SP3, Google Chrome 11
Is this problem specific to the type of browser you're using or it happens
in all the browsers you tried?

No other browser available to test

Please provide any additional information below.

The data i'm trying to fix comes in a xlsx file, and was imported with the 
wrong enccoding into that database.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by francisc...@gmail.com on 20 May 2011 at 4:19

• Merged into: #237

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I suspect that this is a duplicate of issue 237.  Unfortunately the fix for 
that just missed the 2.0 release.

You *might* be able to workaround this by editing the metadata.json file 
associated with the project and changing "encoding":"null" to 
"encoding":"ISO8859_1" or whatever the default character encoding for your 
system (or, perhaps, to the character encoding that you think was used for the 
file).

Original comment by tfmorris on 20 May 2011 at 11:39

[GoogleCodeExporter]

cool, will try that on monday when i get back to the office. Also, i looked at 
issue 237 and yes, this seems to be a duplicate, as after i filed this i tried 
again and got the same error message as that report.

Original comment by francisc...@gmail.com on 21 May 2011 at 12:26

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Original comment by tfmorris on 25 May 2011 at 5:23

• Changed state: Duplicate