[libreoffice-users] Re: Open fails, looks like chinese

Hi Jay,
Am attaching the offending .csv.
I am surprised with the result. I've since tried to read other OS files,
.csv or .asc.
They are all producing 'chinese'.
Thanks for trying,
JJ


On 24 October 2013 12:59, Jay Lozier [via Document Foundation Mail Archive]
<ml-node+s969070n4079560h18@n3.nabble.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 02:04 -0700, JimJoyce wrote:
> > I'm trying to use calc to format some Ordnance Survey data.
> > It consists of 201 rows of 201 values.
> > The values are all short ascii numeric, such as 123.4
> >
> > It seems to think the data is a long string of what looks (to me) like
> > chinese characters.
> >
> > I downloaded an up-to-date copy of Calc, with the same result.
>
> Jim,
>
> Did you imported the data from a csv or txt file? If so, I have
> occasionally had to change the character set in the import wizard until
> I saw the correct characters. Sometimes the character encoding is
> incorrectly determined.
>
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