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Ticket: Accented Characters Importing as Question Marks

Status	Resolved
Add-on / Version	DataGrab 4.2.2
Severity
EE Version	6.4.11

Thomas Davis

May 16, 2023

Hi,

We have a basic CSV import setup. We have noticed that it imports accented characters (e.g. é) as question marks?

Is there a way we can fix this?

Best regards,
Thomas

Note: the details I have shared below are to a development environment. I will also include htaccess authentication details in case you are prompted for them.
The import is setup to import entries to the “Funding Decisions” channel.

Username: kooba
Password: si-preview-2023

BoldMinded (Brian)

Hi, Thomas. Thanks for providing the login info but I only do that as an absolute last resort. Can you please share with me a sample of your import file containing such characters, and what field you’re importing into EE. e.g the Title field or another custom field? And if it’s a custom field what type of field is it?

Thomas Davis

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BoldMinded (Brian)

Hi, Thomas. I just did a test locally and it works fine for me.

<entry>
        <title>Entry with Spécïal Çharacters</title>
    </entry>

https://capture.dropbox.com/YPlrYrqYnhqG8zXG

I’m using a beta version of DG 5, I’m not making any more updates to v4. I can share a beta version of 5 with you to test with but I don’t think any changes were made to the codebase in v5 that would affect this behavior.

BoldMinded (Brian)

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Thomas Davis

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BoldMinded (Brian)

Closing due to inactivity, If the issue is still occurring feel free to re-open.