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2008

UnicodeDictWriter—write unicode strings out to Excel compatible CSV files using Python. Stuart Langridge and I spent quite a while this morning battling with Excel. The magic combination for storing unicode text in a CSV file such that Excel correctly reads it is UTF-16, a byte order mark and tab delimiters rather than commas.

# 20th August 2008, 12:19 pm / byteordermark, csv, excel, i18n, internationalisation, python, stuart-langridge, unicode, unicodedictwriter, utf16