Title: Exotic characters causing import problems
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Exotic characters causing import problems

 *  Resolved [bookswarm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bookswarm/)
 * (@bookswarm)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exotic-characters-causing-import-problems/)
 * 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/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/supra-csv-parser/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Joseph Persie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zmijevik/)
 * (@zmijevik)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exotic-characters-causing-import-problems/#post-3625401)
 * What is the issue with using find and replace on the csv file?
 *  Thread Starter [bookswarm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bookswarm/)
 * (@bookswarm)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exotic-characters-causing-import-problems/#post-3625421)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zmijevik/)
 * (@zmijevik)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exotic-characters-causing-import-problems/#post-3625427)
 * This is not the plugin throwing errors.. This is the XMLRPC API throwing the 
   errors. [http://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_WordPress_API](http://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_WordPress_API)
 *  Thread Starter [bookswarm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bookswarm/)
 * (@bookswarm)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exotic-characters-causing-import-problems/#post-3625430)
 * So there’s nothing that can be done?
 *  Plugin Author [Joseph Persie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zmijevik/)
 * (@zmijevik)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exotic-characters-causing-import-problems/#post-3625451)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zmijevik/)
 * (@zmijevik)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exotic-characters-causing-import-problems/#post-3625467)
 * please provide an email so i can send you a version of the plugin to test that
   will allow special characters
 *  Thread Starter [bookswarm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bookswarm/)
 * (@bookswarm)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exotic-characters-causing-import-problems/#post-3625481)
 * Sorry, been on holiday! If you could send to
 * [plugins@bookswarm.co.uk](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exotic-characters-causing-import-problems/plugins@bookswarm.co.uk?output_format=md)
 * that would be much appreciated!
 *  Plugin Author [Joseph Persie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zmijevik/)
 * (@zmijevik)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exotic-characters-causing-import-problems/#post-3625485)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zmijevik/)
 * (@zmijevik)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exotic-characters-causing-import-problems/#post-3625511)
 * 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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