<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Kee Nethery <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kee@kagi.com">kee@kagi.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On Oct 16, 2009, at 5:49 PM, Stephen Hansen wrote:<br>
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On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Stef Mientki <<a href="mailto:stef.mientki@gmail.com" target="_blank">stef.mientki@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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The thing is, I'd be VERY surprised (neigh, shocked!) if Excel can't open a file that is in UTF8-- it just might need to be TOLD that its utf8 when you go and open the file, as UTF8 looks just like ASCII -- until it contains characters that can't be expressed in ASCII. But I don't know what type of file it is you're saving.<br>
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We found that UTF-16 was required for Excel. It would not "do the right thing" when presented with UTF-8.<br><font color="#888888">
<br></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Oh, on reflection that doesn't surprise me. Lots of windows/microsoft stuff is UTF16.</div><div><br></div><div>So, Stef-- for excel, I'd just write out as utf16. And use unicode internally everywhere else. If you wanted to be consistent you could just use utf16 for everything instead of UTF8. I like utf8 because of its compactness, personally. </div>
<div><br></div><div>But up to you!</div></div>