Title: [Plugin: CSV Importer] Sample CSV encoding | not good
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: CSV Importer] Sample CSV encoding | not good

 *  Resolved Anonymous User 5466832
 * (@anonymized-5466832)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-csv-importer-sample-csv-encoding-not-good/)
 * Hello, I’m using a managed hosting account and downloaded your plugin using wget.
   After fighting for a long time to get the file working correctly, even based 
   on what I saw online about how to escape commas inside the fields, I opened your
   sample file.
 * Here’s what I saw *gulp*
 * Not very helpful as a sample, please figure out a way to make sure that the file
   is encoded correctly regardless of what OS the person is using (not everyone 
   uses Windows!)
 * **Warning, the image below is disturbing:**
    [What I see when I open your sample file after downloaded it using wget to my Linode managed hosting account](http://i.imgur.com/VyyLi.png)
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/csv-importer/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/csv-importer/)

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 * Last activity: [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-csv-importer-sample-csv-encoding-not-good/)
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