Title: [Plugin: CSV Importer] Problem with Cyrillic text
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: CSV Importer] Problem with Cyrillic text

 *  Resolved [chefobat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chefobat/)
 * (@chefobat)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-csv-importer-problem-with-cyrillic-text/)
 * Hello there,
 * I guess this has to go to Mr. Denis Kobozev to check it personally or juts give
   me some advise of what I’m doing wrong. I have a file with some data in Cyrillic
   and nor category or any of the custom fields are getting imported. I have an 
   example of the file here : aptekite.com/apteki1-100.csv .
 * Note : I have a plugin called Cyr-Cho which looks to be getting some of the Cyrillic
   characters transmitted as I get a slug that looks pretty much like the original
   text. Really not sure what happens there but any help will be appreciated.
 * Please advise,
    Stefan Batanov
 * P.S. WP version 2.9.2 in Bulgarian and CVS Importer 0.2.4

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 *  [dvkob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dvkob/)
 * (@dvkob)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-csv-importer-problem-with-cyrillic-text/#post-1468968)
 * chefobat: It looks like your CSV file is using cp1251 encoding. You must save
   the file with utf-8 encoding for the plugin to work correctly.
 *  Thread Starter [chefobat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chefobat/)
 * (@chefobat)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-csv-importer-problem-with-cyrillic-text/#post-1468992)
 * Dear Mr. Kobozev ,
 * Thank you for the quick reply. I’m sorry for the lame question but I had saved
   the file in notepad as unicode text bu then the plugin returned that the posts
   were skipped because of missing title. Shall I use OpenOffice Spreadsheet or 
   some other program?
 * regards,
    Stefan Batanov
 *  Thread Starter [chefobat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chefobat/)
 * (@chefobat)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-csv-importer-problem-with-cyrillic-text/#post-1468995)
 * To all,
 * I have managed to use this great plugin. The process in my case was like that:
 * 1. Installed OpenOffice Calc – yes only this program from the whole package
    
   2. Opened the csv file with Calc. 3. Saved it as ods. 4. Saved the ods file as
   csv and chose Unicode UTF-8 (I have saved is before as simply Unicode but i guess
   there are a bunch of Unicode encodings also)
 * Best of luck to all.
 * regards,
    Stefan Batanov
 *  [alextc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alextc/)
 * (@alextc)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-csv-importer-problem-with-cyrillic-text/#post-1469068)
 * Dear Mr. Kobozev,
 * First of all, congratulations for such a great plug-in.
 * On another note, I wanted to ask you whether it was possible to insert some kind
   of symbol or command in the csv_post_categories column so that I can upload post
   with their respective category and sub or child category.
 * For example, a post goes into the marketing category as well as into the seo 
   subcategory.
 * Is there a way to configure child categories in the CSV file so that they are
   already organized when the posts are uploaded?
 * Thank you!
 *  [dvkob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dvkob/)
 * (@dvkob)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-csv-importer-problem-with-cyrillic-text/#post-1469070)
 * alextc: You can choose a parent category for all imported posts via the plugin’s
   interface. I don’t know if that would satisfy your needs or not – it would help
   immensely if you posted what your category tree looks like and what it should
   look like after the import.

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