[WG: I18N & L10N] utf-8 & csv

[David Horwitz]

Hi All,

(sorry for the cross posting) While investigating SAK-15480 & SAK-15479
that both deal with problems experiences with csv exports that contain
utf8 characters, I discovered the following:

1) The csv spec only specifies unicode
2) Ms office (at least on Win) doesn't support utf8 in csv
3) openoffice (at least on *nix) does support utf8


In the case of the roster it seemed that the easiest was to switch the
export to actually export a xls sheet, as this is probably what most
users expect. Does anyone see a problem with this? and any reason the
same solution shouldn't be used in gradebook?

D