[GNC] GC 3.2 Import Price File CSV

[John Ralls]

> On Aug 24, 2018, at 1:36 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> In Fri, 24 Aug 2018 at 17:58, Megagrumpy <megagrumpy at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> SUCCESS!!!  It turns out that I was very carefully ensuring that I was saving
>> the file from Excel in "CSV UTF-8 (Comma delimited)" format as I thought
>> this was the closest match to the Encoding required for the import tool.
>> Changing to the option "CSV (comma delimited)" works. Or, as you suggested,
>> changing to Western (ASCII) also works.
> 
> I think that would possibly count as a bug in the importer would it not?

Maybe, though I suspect it’s a bug in Excel. Microsoft is well known for not really understanding UTF-8, and there’s always the possibility that Excel tried to write UTF-8 and Windows gratuitously transcoded it to the locale’s codepage.

Regards,
John Ralls