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I have a Java app which reads CSV files which have been created in Excel (e.g. 2007). Does anyone know what charset MS Excel uses to save these files in?
I would have guessed either:
but I am unable to decode extended chars (e.g. french accentuated letters) using either of these charset types.
CSV files could be in any format, depending on what encoding option was specified during the export from Excel: (Save Dialog, Tools Button, Web Options Item, Encoding Tab)
UPDATE: Excel (including Office 2013) doesn’t actually respect the web options selected in the “save as…” dialog, so this is a bug of some sort. I just use OpenOffice Calc now to open my XLSX files and export them as CSV files (edit filter settings, choose UTF-8 encoding).