On Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:33:30 -0600 "Andreas J. Guelzow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Are you useing the configurable text exporter or the defaults csv? If > you use the latter give the former a try and choose the desired > encoding. Hi Andreas, Thanks for the reply. Apparently, the strange characters in the original xls file were because the person who sent it to me, somehow imported data from a DOS file, and the characters were of the OEM_437 or OEM_850 sets. Those characters were somehow accepted, and appeared in the XLS as completely unrelated UTF-16. I'm suspecting he/she imported CSV info into Excel, and the charset was not converted from DOS to Windows. Thanks - I'll have to invent some way to convert the XLS to the correct character set - suggestions accepted! John _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list gnumeric-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
