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Importing XML into ExCel with PowerQuery, encoding not working.
Hi! I have a pretty big XML file, in which the encoding is UTF-8. There's a lot of occurences of special characters (æ,ø,å), which after import only shows up as as questionmark "boxes". Usual...
andersbegde SergeiBaklan NikolinoDE
I've tried NikolinoDE 's solution and it works.
What I did step by step was:
1. Open the file in Notepad++
2. Hit the "Encoding" tab and select "Convert to UTF-8-BOM".
3. Save as separate file (doesn't matter I guess but I wanted to keep the other as backup).
4. Open excel and import it normally via Data->Import From File (XML).
Worked exactly as expected.
Thanks for the replies both NikolinoDE and SergeiBaklan
andersbegde SergeiBaklan NikolinoDE
I've tried NikolinoDE 's solution and it works.
What I did step by step was:
1. Open the file in Notepad++
2. Hit the "Encoding" tab and select "Convert to UTF-8-BOM".
3. Save as separate file (doesn't matter I guess but I wanted to keep the other as backup).
4. Open excel and import it normally via Data->Import From File (XML).
Worked exactly as expected.
Thanks for the replies both NikolinoDE and SergeiBaklan
Great to know you solved this. However, from my point of view to add one parameter in formula bar is more direct and straightforward way.
