[Plugin: WP-Table Reloaded] Importing UTF-8 content

Hi,

Yes indeed, this is a problem with different character encodings. Unfortunately, however, I have not yet been able to resolve this satisfactorily.
It seems that somewhere between the import process of the CSV file (for which I use an external PHP library) and the saving to the database (which happens in a “serialized” string), the character encoding gets broken, so that special characters (like accents) are not shown correctly.

The only workarounds that I’m currently aware of are to manually save the file again in different character encodings and try with those (this is what e-sushi describes, and you can for example do it with Notepad and “Save as” there).
A different solution (which requires more work) is to manually fix all characters that are broken after the import.

If someone knows a permanent solution (or can even find the necessary steps to fix this in the plugin code), I’d really be happy to hear it!

Best wishes,
Tobias

Do you have any idea what character encoding work best?

Hi,

no, unfortunately not. Different encodings have worked in the past, for different users.
My assumption is that this is heavily influenced by the server setup, where several character encodings can be configured (server itself, mySQL data storage, mySQL connection, Apache/webserver, …).

The best way here is to try out different encodings when saving the file. This can or example be done in Notepad or other text editors as those allow to set the encoding.

Regards,
Tobias

Damn.
I’m from Chile (Spanish), and this is a mess. hahaha.
Btw, great plugin.

Hi,

sorry to hear that you are also suffering from this problem ?? The best option for now is to try the different character encodings…

Best wishes,
Tobias