Quote Originally Posted by jamesjweg View Post

I think my other problems with EP 4 might have been due to ignoring the warnings about excel, avoid Micro$ucks, in that case his RTFM comment is valid.

Thanks, James.
James,

The big problem with Microsoft Excel is that the different versions 2000 through 2010 all handle csv export "their own way" and on top of that, platforms (win vs mac)
are also different. Also, MS won't let you specify your source data's encoding (say from some supplier) that may be in iso8859-1 but you then need to convert and export as UTF8. Open Office will do this. Open Office will also properly encapsulate your data, not just what it thinks you want encapsulted.

Another stickler is that I am use php's fgetcsv() to read data, and IT has it's own issues... especially when dealing with UTF8 multi-byte languages.

-chadd