universal data writer character set

kasturi

• August 22, 2012 00:00

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Hi,
I am using universal data writer to create files for exporting to another system. The charater set is the default ISO 8859-1. My graph failed because it could not translate a russian name Лара. What character set should I use so that it can properly read that and create the csv file.
Thanks,
Kasturi

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  slechtaj

  • August 23, 2012 08:33

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  Hi Kasturi,
  
  The most common charset for these unicode issues is UTF-8.
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  davidleelambert

  • October 01, 2012 19:23

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  Not "universal", but if you're interacting with a legacy system that specifically processes Russian text, it's possible that you instead need a legacy non-Unicode encoding, such as "IBM866", ISO-8859-5, KOI8-R or "windows-1251". That said, as a first try, UTF-8 is the natural choice; I'm not sure why Clover uses ISO-8859-1 as the default, it seems like it should either be US-ASCII (to catch encoding problems early) or UTF-8 (widest repertoire).

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