How can I reload an Excel spreadsheet using a different encoding?
Someone shared an Excel file with me (.xlsx, not .csv). Looking at the data in Excel it's obvious that the file is encoded using UTF-8, but Excel is interpreting the data as Windows 1252 encoded text. For example, where I expected to see 'ã' Excel displays 'ã' instead. 'ã' is U+00E3 which is 0xC3 0xA3 encoded as UTF-8, which corresponds to 'ã' in Windows 1252.
How can I reload the file, without changing it, and have Excel interpret the data as UTF-8 encoded text?
microsoft-excel encoding utf-8
asked Jan 15 at 12:45
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Someone shared an Excel file with me (.xlsx, not .csv). Looking at the data in Excel it's obvious that the file is encoded using UTF-8, but Excel is interpreting the data as Windows 1252 encoded text. For example, where I expected to see 'ã' Excel displays 'ã' instead. 'ã' is U+00E3 which is 0xC3 0xA3 encoded as UTF-8, which corresponds to 'ã' in Windows 1252.
How can I reload the file, without changing it, and have Excel interpret the data as UTF-8 encoded text?
microsoft-excel encoding utf-8
asked Jan 15 at 12:45
Michiel van OosterhoutMichiel van Oosterhout
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Someone shared an Excel file with me (.xlsx, not .csv). Looking at the data in Excel it's obvious that the file is encoded using UTF-8, but Excel is interpreting the data as Windows 1252 encoded text. For example, where I expected to see 'ã' Excel displays 'ã' instead. 'ã' is U+00E3 which is 0xC3 0xA3 encoded as UTF-8, which corresponds to 'ã' in Windows 1252.
How can I reload the file, without changing it, and have Excel interpret the data as UTF-8 encoded text?
microsoft-excel encoding utf-8
asked Jan 15 at 12:45
Michiel van OosterhoutMichiel van Oosterhout
3292821
Someone shared an Excel file with me (.xlsx, not .csv). Looking at the data in Excel it's obvious that the file is encoded using UTF-8, but Excel is interpreting the data as Windows 1252 encoded text. For example, where I expected to see 'ã' Excel displays 'ã' instead. 'ã' is U+00E3 which is 0xC3 0xA3 encoded as UTF-8, which corresponds to 'ã' in Windows 1252.
How can I reload the file, without changing it, and have Excel interpret the data as UTF-8 encoded text?
microsoft-excel encoding utf-8
microsoft-excel encoding utf-8
asked Jan 15 at 12:45
Michiel van OosterhoutMichiel van Oosterhout
3292821
asked Jan 15 at 12:45
Michiel van OosterhoutMichiel van Oosterhout
3292821
edited Jan 15 at 12:56
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asked Jan 15 at 12:45
Michiel van OosterhoutMichiel van Oosterhout
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asked Jan 15 at 12:45
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asked Jan 15 at 12:45
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