Encoding problems with non-latin language when exporting results as Excel file

What are the settings for your download (CSV, TSV, Excel, etc?) I've successfully imported files with all kinds of characters (Arabic, Chinese, French). Often times this is a matter getting Excel to read your files properly, as opposed to something wrong with the files. More recent versions of Office give you trouble when dealing with Webform's xls files, I suggest using TSV for everything.

Whatever you do, do NOT use CSV. That format by standards does not support non-latin characters. It it is impossible to get them working with CSV. TSV is definitely the safest way to go (which is why it is the default).

Well this is slightly embarrassing, everything would be working if we were doing a simple comparison correctly. Webform encodes everything perfectly, but is forgetting the infamous "BOM" marker beginning the file. This small change makes XLS and TSV files download and open in Excel properly. I tested with French and Hebrew and they downloaded just fine.

These changes are included in the beta 4 version which will be available shortly.

Sorry for reopening this but this issue seems to come back
I am using 6.x-3.11 and when trying to export a TSV (or CSV for this manner) file with non Lating chars i get gibberish when on Linux machines
on Windows this works fine, however on linux machines the non Latin chars are unreadable

I can't reproduce any problems when exporting TSV/Excel files. As noted, you shouldn't use CSV files for exports because they specifically do not support UTF8 characters.

sorry,
didnt see your reply

As i said i tested on TSV as well

the issue is on Linux
On windows its working fine

ok, the issue is with my Linux configuration
I checked it with two other Linux machines and it seems fine

Sorry of this

Avner