I need to extract the data from Locoscript files.I have a computer running Windows XP so I can read the data. Can you help? Thanks.
I have tried opening in WordPad and Excel. I can read the text, but there are too many extra characters and no formatting. I have a lot of data to extract so it is impractical to delete all of the additional characters. The Text Import Wizard doesn't seem to help.
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I have a script (that I run on a Mac) that writes degree C (unit for temperature in celsius) to a CSV file. I want this file to be viewed in Excel and Numbers. The problem is that it opens fine on Numbers, but shows weird characters on Excel(Windows, I haven't tested Excel on Mac).
I tried both ℃ (the unicode character) and °C (a degree character followed by a C). On Excel I get this:
I'm pretty sure the csv file is UTF-8 encoded, so I don't know what causes the issue.
Here's something else I noticed, if I save as .txt instead of .csv and open it in excel, then an import wizard shows up. If I just leave anything as default and choose 'Finish' then the symbol does show up correctly. But it's not ideal because my users won't be able to double click on the file to open it.
What is the best way to have the special character display in both programs using the same file?
An answer in this post resolved my issue.
Is it possible to force Excel recognize UTF-8 CSV files automatically?
I have to add \uFEFF to the very beginning of my CSV file.
We have a requirement to FTP the batch report to a excel sheet in .csv format. The batch report contains both single byte and double byte characters, for example, English and Chinese. The data in mainframe is in Base64 format and when this is FTP’ed in either Binary or ASCII mode, the resulting .csv spreadsheet shows only junk characters. We need a method to FTP the batch report file, so that the FTP’ed report is in readable format.
Request your help in resolving this issue.
I'm not familiar with Chinese character sets but I would think if you're not restricted to CSV, you might try to format an XML document for excel whereby you can specify the fonts as part of the spreadsheet definition.
Assuming that isn't an option I would think the Base64 format might need to be translated to ASCII (from EBCDIC) before transmission and then delivered in BINARY. Otherwise you risk having the data translated to something you didn't expect.
Another way to see what is really happening is send the data as ASCII and retrieve the data as BINARY and then compare the before and after results to see what characters were changed enroute during transmission. I recall having to do something similar to this once to resolve different code sets in Europe vs. U.S.
I'm not sure any of these suggestions would represent a "solution" to your problem, but these would be ideas that I would explore. I would be interested in hearing how you resolve this.
I use SuperCSV to write Excel files. How can I add font formatting to some of the cells - strikethrough etc.?
Thanks!
If you're using SuperCSV to write an "Excel" file, you're just writing out a comma delimited file. If you need to start getting fancy and trying to add fonts, colors and other formatting tools, it may be time to step up from CSV as an output to an actual XLSX / XLSM. There is a tool out there called Apache POI. We use that on my team for when we need to have full featured Excel files. You can find it here: http://poi.apache.org/ Just be forewarned that conversion from SuperCSV to POI is not a fast or easy conversion.
If I have a text file consisting solely the word "NESTLÉ", how do I open this in Excel without mangling the accent?
This question isn't quite covered by other questions on the site, so far as I can tell. I don't see any difference in any import option. I try to tell Excel it's UTF-8 when I import it, and the best that happens is that the É => _.
If I create a Google Docs spreadsheet with just that word and save it out to Excel format, then open in Excel, I get the data un-mangled, so that's good, it's possible to represent the data.
I've never seen Excel 2011 do anything smart with a UTF8 BOM indicator at the start of a file.
Does anyone else have different experience there, or know how to get this data from a text file to Excel without any intermediate translation tools?
I saved a file with that word in multiple formats. The results when opened with Excel 2010 by simply dragging and dropping the appropriate .txt file on it:
Correct
ANSI1 (Windows-1252 encoding on my system, which is US Windows)
UTF-8 with BOM
UTF-16BE without BOM
UTF-16LE without BOM
UTF-16LE with BOM
Incorrect
UTF-8 without BOM (result NESTLÉ)
UTF-16BE with BOM (result þÿNESTLÉ)
Do you know the encoding of your text file? Interesting the UTF-16BE with BOM failed. Excel is probably using a heuristic function such as IsTextUnicode.
1The so-called ANSI mode on Windows is a locale-specific encoding.
I use real basic for programming and I want to export some data to a word file that can be opened with "Open Office" or any other word processing software that can work on MAC OSX, any advise?
You didn't indicate what sort of data you're dealing with so I'll just assume text. Take a look at the StyledText class since it can read/write RTF which can be read by most word processors. http://docs.realsoftware.com/index.php/StyledText The drawback is that they only support a subset of RTF and don't support images.
If you have images and want a little more control I would recommend the Formatted Text Control from True North Software. http://www.truenorthsoftware.com/formattedtextcontrol/ It's a little pricey, but it's well worth it. True RTF support as well as a lot of XML options. You can create a very nice looking export via code.
You can always just create a plain old text file using the TextOutputStream which any word processor can open and read. http://docs.realsoftware.com/index.php/TextOutputStream
If you're on Windows, you can export directly to Word using the WordApplication class. http://docs.realsoftware.com/index.php/WordApplication That's not a cross-platform solution though.
TextOutputStream in itself only outputs characters, but if the text is rtfdata and you give it a fileending of .rtf it is interpreted as an RTF-file.
You can actually give the file a .doc, and it will be opended in Word as default (assuming word is default for .doc files)