Non-latin alphabets

Open leilaz opened this issue 7 years ago • 3 comments

From Alexmar983 (and I have experienced this issue in the past as well):

The tool does not import decently namefile in Arabic or Greek on xls, in some countries I have a problem to understand the finalist... i have to ask the jurors what they vote to be sure.

Sep 01 '18 06:09 leilaz

Just to confirm, is this a problem with importing files or exporting votes?

Oct 04 '18 16:10 slaporte

at the time of exporting.

Oct 05 '18 04:10 leilaz

The exported files are csv. It looks like excel recognizes these in the wrong encoding, and that is producing this bad user experience.

It looks like adding a BOM can help excel recognize the file as UTF-8. It seems this may fix it, but I have not been able to test it.

There is an example here that suggests how to add a BOM to the csvwriter. I'll submit a PR, but haven't properly set up the platform to test locally.

May 29 '21 06:05 lgelauff