https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=496215
--- Comment #3 from Alex E <evanghelli...@gmail.com> --- (In reply to Alexander Semke from comment #2) > (In reply to Alex E from comment #0) > > SUMMARY > > > > I tried to import a CSV file but the app refused to see it. Passing the file > > through LibreOffice Calc and copy/pasting the data led to text columns and > > trying to convert to numerical crashed the app. I then tried to read the > > same file in a Python script and that's when I realized that it was encoded > > in UTF-16. Opening with Kate and saving as UTF-8 solved all the issues. > > > > The file in question was either generated as such by a scientific > > instrument's software (it's spectrometer data), or it was passed through > > Microsoft Office and somehow ended up with UTF-16. Either way, I think it's > > possibly a common occurrence and potential source of frustration for > > scientists who aren't very code savvy and have to work in a Microsoft/Origin > > dominated ecosystem. > > > > It would be nice to have at least a more verbose error message, if not full > > support for files with such weird encodings. > Thank you for reporting this issue. We implemented an error message that is > shown in the import dialog for such files, it will be part of the next > release 2.12. > > Above you mentioned a crash of the application when working with utf16. In > case this is reproducible for you, can you please provide the steps for how > to reproduce this issue? I tried but I haven't been able to reproduce it at all. Now after copy/pasting from LibreOffice I just get text columns and converting to double/integer just makes them non-values, using the same UTF16 files. The crash I reported might have had more to do with trying to import the same files over and over again for something like 30 minutes with varying combinations of value separators. Possibly other apps working in the background were also an influence, but I cannot recall the exact conditions. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
