{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sferik/rails_admin/issues/2169","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sferik/rails_admin/issues/2169/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sferik/rails_admin/issues/2169/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sferik/rails_admin/issues/2169/events","html_url":"https://github.com/sferik/rails_admin/issues/2169","id":54781633,"number":2169,"title":"CSV - encoding - special characters","user":{"login":"Preen","id":364479,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/364479?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Preen","html_url":"https://github.com/Preen","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Preen/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Preen/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Preen/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Preen/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Preen/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Preen/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Preen/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Preen/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Preen/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":4,"created_at":"2015-01-19T16:07:11Z","updated_at":"2015-10-04T16:54:49Z","closed_at":null,"body":"When I export to csv I get funny characters for all my special characters when importing it to Excel. I have tried to change the encoding from utf-8 to iso-8859-1 but with no luck. How can I achieve ok characters?\r\n\r\nI'm on MAC OSX 10.10.\r\nrails_admin => 0.6.5\r\nrails 4.1.6\r\nruby 2.1.4\r\n\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sferik/rails_admin/issues/comments/145366142","html_url":"https://github.com/sferik/rails_admin/issues/2169#issuecomment-145366142","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sferik/rails_admin/issues/2169","id":145366142,"user":{"login":"codealchemy","id":4504083,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4504083?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/codealchemy","html_url":"https://github.com/codealchemy","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/codealchemy/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/codealchemy/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/codealchemy/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/codealchemy/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/codealchemy/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/codealchemy/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/codealchemy/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/codealchemy/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/codealchemy/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-10-04T16:54:49Z","updated_at":"2015-10-04T16:54:49Z","body":"@Preen got it, though it looks to have been addressed in recent releases? Exporting to `Windows-1252` encoding in rails_admin 0.7.0 opens fine with special characters in Excel (on a Mac as well)"}}