microsoft excel 2010 - How to convert UTF-8 to SHIFT-JIS using vba
2014-07
user275763
I am developing an application that reads from a text file and writes to a CSV file.
Since characters in the text file are UTF-8, the CSV file also contain the same characters.
Because of UTF-8, Double Byte(Japanese Character) cannot be written correctly in a CSV file.
Please explain the best way to write correct data.
Dave Rook
Most answers I've seen are work arounds, doing it manually in Google Docs or NotePad ++ or similar. The link I give offers many suggestions which may or may not suffice. The one answer by Eric may be the most useful:
... I tried saving the xlsx file to xls first, then to csv. It actually worked.
Sadly, one of the answers there simply writes
I was not able to find a VBA solution for this problem on Mac Excel. There simply seemed to be no way to output UTF-8 text.
You may be able to do this in CSV, then write a script to convert it in NotePad++ but it looks like there may have to be some manual work.
frankadelic
My client has a ton of Japanese text files which are encoded in Shift-JIS.
They need a utility which can convert these files to UTF-8.
Ideally, the tool would offer both command-line and interactive options.
Any suggestions?
(PS - could someone with rep add the "shift-jis" tag?)
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
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