Perl Requires Chilkat v9.5.0.93+

Write utf-8 CSV Compatible with Excel

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A CSV containing non-English characters that is saved using the utf-8 character encoding must include a BOM (also known as a preamble) if it is to be correctly loaded into Excel. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark

This example shows how to save the CSV to a file using utf-8 with a BOM.

Chilkat2 Perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

# This example program loads a file (japanese.csv)
# that contains this content:
#
# year,color,country,food
# 2001,red,France,cheese
# 2005,blue,"United States",hamburger
# 2008,green,Italy,pasta
# 1998,orange,Japan,sushi
# 2010,silver,"太志","森田"
#

my $csv = Chilkat2::Csv->new;
$csv->HasColumnNames(1);
my $success = $csv->LoadFile2('qa_data/csv/test.csv', 'utf-8');
if (!$success) {
    print $csv->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# To save the CSV using utf-8 with a BOM/preamble,
# add "EMIT_BOM" to the UncommonOptions.

$csv->UncommonOptions('EMIT_BOM');
$success = $csv->SaveFile2('qa_output/test.csv', 'utf-8');
if (!$success) {
    print $csv->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

print "OK, try to load the CSV in Excel to see if the non-English chars are correct.\n";