My experience is limited to whatever my CPA is using (I think he uses Excel). By experimenting with utf-8, cp862, iso_8859-8 and windows-1255 encodings, we found that windows-1255 worked for him.
If you find that Google Docs and Excel have contradictory expectations, then I suggest that you allow people to export the CSV file in either "Google Docs compatible" encoding or "Excel compatible" encoding. --- Omer On Sat, 2010-07-31 at 00:02 +0300, Ori Idan wrote: > I am trying to export a file in CSV format that some of it's columns > are hebrew. > I would like people to be able to import it to excel, open-office and > google docs. > In open-office I had no problem importing the file in any encoding I > used, however I could not import it to google docs. > Other people with excel reported they can not see the hebrew also. > Does someone have any idea how to export the file so that the hebrew > will be readable? -- No actual electrons, animals or children were harmed by writing this E-mail message. My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il