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1381498 - UTF-8 languages like: Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Greek, German, Spanish, Portuguese or Arabic characters show as question marks when exporting a report to Text or CSV from Crystal Reports

Symptom

  • Incorrect characters.
  • Report exported to text shows question marks.
  • When exporting a report to Tab Separated Text, or Text format, or CSV, some text shows strange and incorrect characters.
  • Report exported to text format from Crystal Reports shows characters as question marks for languages like Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Greek, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese...
  • Exporting from an application using Crystal Reports for Visual studio always exports in ANSI encoding.


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Environment

  • SAP Crystal Reports 2013
  • SAP Crystal Reports 2016
  • SAP Crystal Reports 2020
        
  • SAP Crystal Report, Developer for Visual Studio

Product

Crystal Reports 2008 V1 ; SAP Crystal Reports 2011 ; SAP Crystal Reports 2013 ; SAP Crystal Reports 2016 ; SAP Crystal Reports 2020 ; SAP Crystal Reports, developer version for Microsoft Visual Studio

Keywords

Crystal report, Exporting, txt, text. CR, cr for vs, utf-8 , KBA , BI-RA-CR , Crystal Reports designer or Business View Manager , Problem

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