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by hgazx 1417 days ago
That happened because the xls file was opened with something other than excel. Accept no imitations!
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netsharc 1417 days ago
From my knowledge it's because Excel expects CSV files to be ANSI-encoded, but a lot of implementers just generate CSVs with UTF-8 -- which they're arguably entitled to do, it's Excel which is the one being stupid.
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