Text import chokes on em dash.

What parser are you using?

Could you post a minimal CSV file that breaks the import?

I had the same problem too. I was trying to import a CSV file which had fields like "Post-award – Ongoing Grant Management" with an ndash (–) and it wouldn't import the entire field(it was just importing Post-award). I then changed the ndash to a normal dash and imported the file again and it worked. I was actually mapping this field to node title, if it makes any difference.

Thanks,
Sarat.

Ok. We should go after this. Just compiled two test files, one with ndash, other one with dash. Haven't used them yet. Can you confirm that ndash.txt breaks parsing and dash.txt does?

Yes, ndash.txt breaks and dash.txt does not break. The first node in the attached image is the ndash title and the second is the dash title
FYI: The url for the node created with ndash.txt has the full title (/post-award-ongoing-grant-management).

Thank you for quick confirmation. I will take a closer look at this issue as soon as I can grab some time, should be before Monday.

Ha, I actually can't confirm that.

PHP 5.2.6, MySQL 5.0.77 - what are your versions?

PHP 5.1.6
MySQL 5.0.45

Just now noticed that the character ' ’ ' is not being parsed as well.

st455: I don't have the bandwidth to investigate this issue further, I hope that others can jump in here and report from their PHP versions.

- Specifically, can anybody else with PHP 5.1.x confirm that #5 breaks?
- st455 - can you upgrade to 5.2.x ?

alex: Thank you for your time and help. I will try to upgrade and see if it breaks.

Great - thanks.

Any suggestions on this issue. I have ran into also
I am seeing parsing not import any text after it encounters ’ and –

The problem might be the character encoding of your CSV file. See this related issue: http://drupal.org/node/988620