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I have a tab-delimited text file which contains dagger characters (†). When I open this in Excel 2010, they are mangled and replaced with †(I’m not sure if Excel is adding the space, too). Why does this occur and how can I fix it?
Right now I do search and replacing in Excel to replace the †s, but it’s inefficient for many files and hacky.
The original file is not using the character encoding that Excel expects.
See
Character Encoding and the ’ Issue
Excel’s Import Wizard is better at handling encoding issues and may be able to open your source file properly. See
Microsoft Excel mangles Diacritics in .csv files?