Encoding Selection for Excel Lists

1 Description

At the time being, exported excel lists are not properly encoded when importing them as excel sheet. Reason for this is insufficient UTF-8 support of MS Excel. This problem might be solved when users can choose another encoding (like Latin-1).

Suggestion: before an excel list is generated from ILIAS data, a user can choose the right encoding for the target excel system.

On the technical side PHP offers at least two alternatives: iconv and mb_convert_encoding.

2 Status

3 Additional Information

4 Discussion

JF 8 Mar 2010: We highly appreciate this feature.

JF 14 Jun 2010: Jörg found out that the pear library can be configured in a way by ILIAS that makes it unnecessary to set any specific character sets, by using UTF-8 to UTF-16 conversion. So we may fix this without the need to present a characters set selection in the user interface.

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