encoding

[thorade]

When saving a table to a tex file, that file has ANSI encoding, so if the table contains e.g. ÄÖÜ I currently need to open the file in Notepad++ and convert to UTF-8. Would it be possible to either store the file as UTF-8 directly, or convert Ö to {"O} ??

I filed a similar issue years ago:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/excel2latex/+bug/944134
but the workaround used there does not work anymore, because I switched from pdflatex to lualatex.

Any ideas for a new workaround or solution?
By now all editors support UTF-8, and pdflates also supports utf8.

[ma-harvey]

I was facing the same issue and found a solution, simply by editing the saving function in the VBA editor.

Change the "SaveConversionResultToFile" as follows:

`Public Sub SaveConversionResultToFile(ByVal pModel As IModel)
Dim sFileName As String
sFileName = pModel.AbsoluteFileName
If sFileName = "" Then Exit Sub

Dim fsT As Object
Set fsT = CreateObject("ADODB.Stream")
fsT.Type = 2 'Specify stream type - we want To save text/string data.
fsT.Charset = "utf-8" 'Specify charset For the source text data.
fsT.Open 'Open the stream And write binary data To the object
fsT.WriteText pModel.GetConversionResult
fsT.SaveToFile sFileName, 2 'Save binary data To disk

End Sub`

The result is that the file generated will be UTF-8 directly

[thorade]

Nice! Could you submit that as a Pull Request?
And in the text, reference this issue as #24?

[ma-harvey]

I'm not so familiar with GitHub mechanics.

But feel free to post it.

[ivankokan]

@thorade Until PR gets accepted, you can use "Copy to Clipboard", right?

[thorade]

OK, thanks, will try that.
ADOB.Streams does not work on Mac, it seems.
What platforms did you test your PR on?

[ivankokan]

Windows 7, Office 365.
Try to contribute for Mac :), maybe this will help: http://talesoftech.blogspot.com/2011/05/excel-on-mac-goodbye-vba-hello.html.

[ivankokan]

@thorade, if you are able to test #28 on Mac, can you please describe the behavior? Which error you exactly get (assuming that ADODB.Stream is not supported)? I would like to handle errors in that case, at least saying "This feature is not (yet) supported on Mac".

[ivankokan]

Hi @thorade, I am about to implement Unicode -> UTF-8 encoder on my own so it's platform independent. Stay tuned.