On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 11:04 -0300, John Coppens wrote:
The origin of the strange characters in the file still unclear. These xls
files are sent to my wife's pharmacy monthly with updates.
It would be interesting to know some things if you have access to MS
Excel on Windows or Mac or to the
On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:22:39 +0100
Nick Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 11:04 -0300, John Coppens wrote:
The origin of the strange characters in the file still unclear. These
xls files are sent to my wife's pharmacy monthly with updates.
It would be interesting to know
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 11:10 -0300, John Coppens wrote:
Hi Nick.
I don't usually use Windows, and I don't have Office. But my notebook
came with W$ preinstalled, and I just left it enough space for
experiments. I downloaded and installed Excel viewer.
Thanks for taking the time to do that.
On Mon, 2007-06-08 at 02:19 -0300, John Coppens wrote:
Hello people.
Using version 1.6.3 of gnumeric, I tried to read an xls file and save it
as csv. There was a problem with the resulting csv file, in that iconv
didn't want to convert it into another coding. I'm not sure where the
problem
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
Hello people.
Using version 1.6.3 of gnumeric, I tried to read an xls file and save it
as csv. There was a problem with the resulting csv file, in that iconv
didn't want to convert it into another coding. I'm not sure where the
problem lies.
The original .xls had the following string in it:
