UTF-8 Or Accent export issue

jobisoft / CategoryManager

[Thunderbird Add-On] Category Manager for Thunderbird contacts, also supports category based contact groups.

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UTF-8 Or Accent export issue #21

Closed bzels123 closed 6 years ago

bzels123 commented 6 years ago

Hello, I try to export my list of contacts with "Category" columns, this works fine but some contacts or lines has weird typo such as :

affichÃ© instead of affiché
ChristÃ¨le instead of Christèle

Maybe it's because of not using UTF-8 encoding? is there a way to avoid these weird typo and have all accent exported correctly? Thank you in advance Kind Regards, B.

jobisoft commented 6 years ago

Ae you using the export function of CategoryManager itself?

I think it supports UTF8

bzels123 commented 6 years ago

Hello I answer myself : At stage : Export settings for CSV files for character set : Instead of selecting UTF-8 you need to select Windows-1252 (ANSI) Then accents are correctly handled Best Regards, B.

bzels123 commented 6 years ago

Hello, I answer myself you need to select "windows-1252 (ANSI)" instead of "UTF-8" at Export settings for CSV file stage. and accents are correct

Kind Regards, B.

jobisoft commented 6 years ago

Just to clarify: This is not a general answer. It depends on the application you use to read the exported file! Apparently your application only supports windows 1252.

For most of the other users, UTF 8 (the defacto standard now) will probably work just fine.