Exotic characters causing import problems

  • Resolved bookswarm

    (@bookswarm)


    13 years, 1 month ago

    Hi there,

    Getting on quite well with the plugin (Premium version) but import is failing when it encounters exotic characters within the CSV source (i.e. it fails to import the records affected).

    I am talking about characters like

    ç
    É

    I want to use the plugin to import large volumes of data so manually swapping these for HTML character codes is not an option.

    Is there any solution for this issue?

    Thanks,

    Simon

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/supra-csv-parser/

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  • Plugin Author Joseph Persie

    (@zmijevik)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    What is the issue with using find and replace on the csv file?

    Thread Starter bookswarm

    (@bookswarm)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    Seriously? Those characters are just two examples, there could be numerous accented characters and special characters in the data that are still UTF-8 compliant, even knowing which ones to search for would be a big job and the resulting content would not necessarily have the same meaning. No, it’s no an option.

    What character set is the plugin designed to support?

    Plugin Author Joseph Persie

    (@zmijevik)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    This is not the plugin throwing errors.. This is the XMLRPC API throwing the errors. http://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_WordPress_API

    Thread Starter bookswarm

    (@bookswarm)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    So there’s nothing that can be done?

    Plugin Author Joseph Persie

    (@zmijevik)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    can you provide a csv file with a couple lines of these special characters and I will devise a method to allow them in a future version the plugin. Another edition to the task list.

    Plugin Author Joseph Persie

    (@zmijevik)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    please provide an email so i can send you a version of the plugin to test that will allow special characters

    Thread Starter bookswarm

    (@bookswarm)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    Sorry, been on holiday! If you could send to

    plugins@bookswarm.co.uk

    that would be much appreciated!

    Plugin Author Joseph Persie

    (@zmijevik)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    I sent the plugin to your email, let me know if it works. You may also want to remove your email by editing the post above so you don’t get a ton of spam

    Plugin Author Joseph Persie

    (@zmijevik)

    13 years ago

    the answer to this question is use UTF-8 compliant encodings. the most common issue is creating the csv on a mac

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