Opened 11 years ago
Closed 11 years ago
#22521 closed Cleanup/optimization (wontfix)
Moderinze CSV export docs to cover UTF8 sheets.
| Reported by: | brycenesbitt | Owned by: | nobody |
|---|---|---|---|
| Component: | Documentation | Version: | 1.6 |
| Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | csv |
| Cc: | Triage Stage: | Unreviewed | |
| Has patch: | no | Needs documentation: | no |
| Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
| Easy pickings: | yes | UI/UX: | no |
Description
To the documentation at:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/outputting-csv/
I suggest adding:
response.write(u'\ufeff'.encode('utf8'))
At this point any new software should certainly be writing out utf8 spreadsheets, and
the byte order mark is needed by various versions of MS Excel to properly interpret the utf8 sheets.
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I'm not sure it's the role of Django to promote workaround hacks for proprietary software. BOM markers seem to be controversial for UTF-8 files, so let's that for blogs or Django snippets.
I'm closing the ticket for now, but feel free to open a discussion on django-dev mailing list, and reopen it if you get support.