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Title: Special characters
Post by: gpessoa on October 18, 2012, 20:32:10 PM
Where or what can I change in order to CSVI let me import special characters or words with accents like:   ç  or  é or  ã  or may others...

Thanks in advanced,
Title: Re: Special characters
Post by: jenkinhill on October 18, 2012, 23:19:12 PM
CSVI support can be found on http://www.csvimproved.com/
Title: Re: Special characters
Post by: ArtRight on January 01, 2013, 18:01:00 PM
Hello!

The following worked for me, for importing special characters into virtuemart:

1--Use the HTML name/number:  http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm (http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm)
Do a find/replace in your excel .csv, for example replace "," with ",".

2--Install this AWESOME Excel add-in:  http://www.vbaexpress.com/kb/getarticle.php?kb_id=805 (http://www.vbaexpress.com/kb/getarticle.php?kb_id=805).  It allows you to save your excel file with any delimiter and text enclosure (qualifier) of your choice.  I was having trouble with the " enclosure (because I was using csvi to import METAdata into virtuemart, which requires the real " character) ... now I use ~ with csvi and it works great.  Uncheck the "use leading delimiter" and "use trailing delimiter" boxes.  enter cell "range" in this format:  A1:R234.

I hope that this helps people, I imagine that it is a very common issue!