When a CSV Looks Garbled

Published: Oct 19, 2026 | Updated: Oct 19, 2026 | About (Japanese)

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Opening a CSV directly can garble text because of character encoding differences.

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Convert the CSV with Convert CSV to Excel (.xlsx).
Open the resulting .xlsx in Excel.
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