Excel to CSV with UTF8 encoding [closed]

Answer 1

Easy way to do it: download open office (here), load the spreadsheet and open the excel file (.xls or .xlsx). Then just save it as a text CSV file and a window opens asking to keep the current format or to save as a .ODF format. select "keep the current format" and in the new window select the option that works better for you, according with the language that your file is been written on. For Spanish language select Western Europe (Windows-1252/ WinLatin 1) and the file works just fine. If you select Unicode (UTF-8), it is not going to work with the spanish characters.

Answer 2

I was not able to find a VBA solution for this problem on Mac Excel. There simply seemed to be no way to output UTF-8 text.

So I finally had to give up on VBA, bit the bullet, and learned AppleScript. It wasn't nearly as bad as I had thought.

Solution is described here: http://talesoftech.blogspot.com/2011/05/excel-on-mac-goodbye-vba-hello.html

Answer 3

I have also came across the same problem but there is an easy solution for this.

1. Open your xlsx file in Excel 2016 or higher.
2. In "Save As" choose this option: "(CSV UTF-8(Comma Delimited)*.csv)"

It works perfectly and a csv file is generated which can be imported in any software. I imported this csv file in my SQLITE database and it works perfectly with all unicode characters intact.

Answer 4

Excel typically saves a csv file as ANSI encoding instead of utf8.

One option to correct the file is to use Notepad or Notepad++:

1. Open the .csv with Notepad or Notepad++.
2. Copy the contents to your computer clipboard.
3. Delete the contents from the file.
4. Change the encoding of the file to utf8.
5. Paste the contents back from the clipboard.
6. Save the file.

Answer 5

You can do this on a modern Windows machine without third party software. This method is reliable and it will handle data that includes quoted commas, quoted tab characters, CJK characters, etc.

1. Save from Excel

In Excel, save the data to file.txt using the type Unicode Text (*.txt).

2. Start PowerShell

Run powershell from the Start menu.

3. Load the file in PowerShell

$data = Import-Csv C:\path\to\file.txt -Delimiter "`t" -Encoding BigEndianUnicode

4. Save the data as CSV

$data | Export-Csv file.csv -Encoding UTF8 -NoTypeInformation

Answer 6

Using Notepad++

This will fix the corrupted CSV file saved by Excel and re-save it in the proper encoding.

• Export CSV from Excel
• Load into Notepad++
• Fix encoding
• Save

Excel saves in CP-1252 / Windows-1252. Open the CSV file in Notepad++. Select

Encoding > Character Sets > Western European > Windows-1252

Then

Encoding > Convert to UTF-8
File > Save

First tell Notepad++ the encoding, then convert. Some of these other answers are converting without setting the proper encoding first, mangling the file even more. They would turn what should be ’ into 達. If your character does not fit into CP-1252 then it was already lost when it was saved as CSV. Use another answer for that.