Here are 2 formulae to aid in working with UTF-8. 1 converts a code point into a UTF-8 hex string and the other converts a UTF-8 hex string into a code point. I often find myself using a spreadsheet ...

Unicode is an international standard that allows software programs such as Microsoft Excel to display characters from foreign alphabets such as Chinese or Cyrillic, which can be very helpful if you ...

Japanese characters often become garbled when you work with CSV or text files in Microsoft Excel. To avoid the problem, use the Unicode encoding option when importing the data into Excel. Unicode is ...

Excel is Unicode by default and allows newlines in cells. SAS will generate errors when importing non-UTF-8 Unicode and newlines in cells. This solution is for when the SAS program must not fail and ...

Howdy fellows!<BR><BR>I have an .XLS file containing a bunch of names, some of which have non-standard characters in them (accents over the "o", stuff like that). I would very much like to get this ...