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andersbegde
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Nov 11, 2020

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...
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    andersbegde
    Nov 11, 2020

    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 

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andersbegde
Copper Contributor
Nov 11, 2020

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 

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    SergeiBaklan
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    Nov 11, 2020

    andersbegde 

    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.

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