https://www.machform.com/forums/ MachForm Community Forums Topic: Special Characters in Text Fields en Mon, 04 May 2026 02:04:03 +0000 https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/special-characters-in-text-fields#post-7910 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:17:53 +0000 yuniar 7910@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>This seems to be some bug with the export script. We've replied to your bug report and attached the bugfix. Please check it and try it. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/special-characters-in-text-fields#post-7869 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:10:58 +0000 MarioCipriano 7869@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Please understand there are no international characters or special character being keyed into this field. Its just US English. If I view the entries in the admin interface there are no problem. This issue only happens when the file is exported to Excel or .CSV an opened with Excel 2007.</p> <p>I had submitted a bug report and have been asked to provide additional information. I have done so.</p> <p>Bug Report [#282]{18279} </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/special-characters-in-text-fields#post-7868 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:08:51 +0000 yuniar 7868@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>To be able exporting the special characters correctly into Excel, the iconv extension need to be enabled for your PHP.</p> <p>I believe most hosting company already have this enabled.<br /> Please check if your host have this enabled or not.</p> <p>If not, please contact your host and ask them to enable PHP iconv extension.<br /> This extension is needed to correctly convert international characters. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/special-characters-in-text-fields#post-7865 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:35:10 +0000 MarioCipriano 7865@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>When I do an export to Excel (2007) I get special characters in my results.</p> <p>If I do a CSV export and open in Excel it truncates the text field at the first special character </p>