From: "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nahi@...>
Date: 2002-10-15T17:01:26+09:00
Subject: Re: UTF-8 Character Conversion to HTML

Hi,

> From: Ben Schumacher [mailto:ben@blahr.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 6:02 AM

> It *should* be UTF-8. The actual output comes from a .csv 
> that is saved
> from an Excel spreadsheet. Since translations are coming from overseas
> from non-technical people (tranlators), this was the only way to send
> the data. When I save the CSV, OpenOffice.org adds a little 3-byte
> identifier to the beginning of the file which I *believe* is 
> what makes
> the file behave as if encoded in UTF-8, correct? (This is probably the
> wrong list for this question.)

Is it 0xef, 0xbb, 0xbf?  Then, yes it should be UTF-8.
But OpenOffice.org Calc/1.0.1 Japanese version I use seems
not to dump a BOM at the begenning of UTF-8 encoded CSV
export file.

Can you send me a sample BOMed UTF-8 file which CSV module
must parse?

Regards,
// NaHi