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Posted on by Microsoft Employee

Hi all

I would like to export the Sharepoint list items to Excel, and the file in Japanese I have created is garbled.

Is there any workaround to resolve?

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    v-chengfen-msft Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi @Anonymous ,

    The cause of this problem is:

    .csv file is a kind of text file. If you encode it in UTF-8 format, there are two ways to save it.

    - Text only

    Byte Order Mark(BOM)+Text

    BOM is 3 characters (EF BB BF) to mark the file is encoded as UTF-8.

    When you generate .csv file in Power Automate, it does not include BOM.

    So, when you open the .csv file in excel, special characters(i.e. Korean) will be broken.

     

    The solution is to add 3 BOM characters in front of the .csv file content before saving it.

     

    concat(uriComponentToString('%EF%BB%BF'),body('Create_CSV_table'))
    Here is a test for your reference:
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    Here is result:

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    Best Regards

    Cheng Feng

  • sullivpatr Profile Picture
    2 on at

    Hi,

    This solution seems to work well when creating a CSV with special characters but what about a Flow which begins with a CSV containing special characters? for example from Dropbox..

     

    Any help would be appreciated

    Patrick

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