How to encode CSV's in Unicode for use with dossier powershell.

Owned by Pramuk Shyam Pathy (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Dec 02, 2014
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Powershell commands can be used to update data on the dossier server. Using powershell, administrators can automate the process of updating information on dossier. Sometime data that is being updated onto dossier may have non-english Unicode characters. By default the CSV files that are generated by softwares like excel are not encoded using Unicode. This will cause issues when trying to upload to dossier. To change the encoding of the files to unicode please follow the below steps:   

Step-by-step guide

The below steps will encode any CSV file in Unicode to upload to dossier.  

  1. Create your file in CSV format.

  2. Open it in notepad, go to save as and choose Unicode for the encoding.

  3. Open Powershell ISE as administrator – ISE supports Unicode characters, regular powershell doesn’t.
  4. Run your script in Powershell ISE. 

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