Quote Originally Posted by davowave View Post
Hello chadderuski,

thanks for making easy populate work with 1.5!

At the moment I'm running 1.3.7 but I'm redesigning my site and upgrading to 1.5 at the same time. I clean installed 1.5 using the database upgrade so that my categories and products and descriptions would be intact, which they are. However, when I installed your version of easy populate and downloaded the csv in a few of the descriptions where I had used ... (dot dot dot) … appeared instead.

Whats going on and how do I fix it and stop it happening again?
You have a similar situation as caffeitalia, but with ... (which is call "ellipsis").

Here is a good article on the problem:

http://www.toao.net/48-replacing-sma...ashes-in-mysql

You can do a manual edit and do a search/replace in a good PLAIN text editor and use the html equivalent which is …

These conversion issues are common when moving from iso-8859-1 to utf8. I have an update I'm posting soon that will help with some multi-byte character issues, but I'll have to look at these problematic characters more closely.

Hope this helps!
chadd

PS! Be sure to read the notes on using OpenOffice. OpenOffice will let you select your character set on import/export of your csv file. Excel will NOT!