Generic Import problem with Greek characters

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Generic import works very well with english characters, but completly fails when trying to import data containing greek characters.

The result of the import is that all fields with only english characters are imported correctly, but in fields that a greek character is present, only the first part of the field (to the first occurance of the first greek character) is imported.

For example if a field eg. OXTITLE has the value ‘This is the article ΩΓ title’ in the csv file, the data imported is ‘This is the article’.

Manual insertion of greek descriptions to products from the Administer products tab is problem free.

Is there a chance that in the generic import code, reading from the csv file greek characters are ignored? :eek:

I hate to have to import 3000 products greek descriptions and names by hand

Thanks in advance

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Hi, this sounds like a char set problem.

Can you check, that the file you want to import is a .csv file saved in utf-8 . Every good editor oder OpenOffice can this. Then you should check if your shop is in utf-8 and it should work well.

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You were absolutly right. It worked perfectly

Thanks …