Spanish accents not parsing correctly when importing from CSV file to JSON

[isAlmogK]

I'm parsing a CSV file with spanish accents, I set the encoding to UTF-8 however it's not parsing correctly

Here is what I'm getting back in the results object
name: "GREGORIO BERNABE �LVAREZ"

and I have the following config setup

Papa.parse(evt.target.files[0], {
header: true,
dynamicTyping: true,
encoding: "utf-8",
}

[mholt]

Is the file really UTF-8 encoded? (And are all its characters UTF-8 encoded as well?) If not, be sure to specify a proper encoding that includes all the characters found in the file.

[isAlmogK]

I think it has to do with the file reader not getting the encoding setting or with the jQuery select casing an issue. Here is my code

<input type="file"  id="csv-file" name="file"/>

function handleFileSelect(evt) {
    if ( !(evt.target && evt.target.files && evt.target.files[0]) ) {
        return;
    }

    Papa.parse(evt.target.files[0], {
        header: true,
        dynamicTyping: true,
        encoding: "UTF-8",
        before: function(file, inputElem)
        {
            console.log(file);
            // executed before parsing each file begins;
            // what you return here controls the flow
        },
        error: function(err, file, inputElem, reason)
        {
            console.log(err);
            // executed if an error occurs while loading the file,
            // or if before callback aborted for some reason
        },
        complete: function (results) {
            renderDataSet(results);
        }
    });
}

[mholt]

I've confirmed that the file reader is indeed getting the encoding setting correctly. What's your input file look like?

[isAlmogK]

I'm saving the file as CSV

[mholt]

I mean what are its contents? Until I can reproduce the problem I can't produce a fix.

[isAlmogK]

Ok the issue is with Microsoft excel it doesn't save it in UTF-8 format - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4221176/excel-to-csv-with-utf8-encoding

I just copied everything into google sheets and saved it there.

[mholt]

Ah, good to know. You're not the first that has had that problem - for example, #64. Maybe I will make this an FAQ on the website.

Glad you got it working! And thanks for your reports.

[isAlmogK]

Yea I would recommend adding this to the docs with some more info.

[fabiocbinbutter]

Deleted my last comment, that Excel workaround does nothing...

[Benczyk]

Had the same problem and lost a lot of time due to this weird Excel bug.

What works for me: instead of exporting your Excel to CSV, save the file as .txt UTF-16
Just tested a file with the papaparse demo, and it works (with or without header).

(found the solution lost in the middle of this stackoverflow thread http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4221176/excel-to-csv-with-utf8-encoding)

[arebena]

Try to put a line like :

encoding: "ISO-8859-1"

in your papa config.
Works for me...

[rwilliams-scottlogic]

Looked into this as I was using it, some notes that may help people:

• Excel will save in the system locale code page. For our users this will be Windows-1252.
• So it should follow that we set this to "CP1252". This works in Chrome and Firefox but not IE10 and IE11.
• Setting this to ISO-8859-1 (of which CP1252 is a superset) strangely works in all browsers, including for characters which exist in CP1252 but not ISO-8859-1.

[qroft]

I am still having trouble in loading the 2 CSV files correctly form this page:
http://www.coflp.org/descargas/
If i download the "Turnos de Guardia.csv" i can see that the format is correct but within the console.log the special characters show broken.