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Special characters from CSV coming as �

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-)Hello guys,
 
I am trying to build an automation that from a CSV file it will update a SharePoint list.
 
I have a file system trigger that will run everytime a file is added or modified, then I use the file system action "Get file content"  (at this stage, if I debug the output, a new tab will display and the special characters would be already as �)
 
I tried to decode, encode, base64ToString but nothing works ( example: instead of pró-forma it will show pr-forma)
 
I even tried to create the CSV file in my OneDrive and then get the file content but without any success. If I open the file directly the words are correctly displayed. When I open using the power automate "get file content using path" the words are all replaced again with 
 
I also tried creating the CSV using the "concat(uriComponentToString('%EF%BB%BF'),body('Create_CSV_table'))" approach.
 
Flow
 
 
here the values come already with 
 
The CSV created in my OneDrive
 
At this moment I don't know what I am doing wrong, I checked the file after and it shows encoded with UTF-8.
 
Thanks in advance
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  • lbendlin Profile Picture
    8,701 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at
    You need to specify the file encoding (likely 65001 - UTF-8 )
  • HS-02011420-0 Profile Picture
    2 on at
    Hi @lbendlin thanks for your response. I figure that I need to have the file encoded into windows-1252 but I cant do it in the original csv. Is there a way to do it in automate?

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