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Originally Posted by Palleman View Post
That's UTF-8 characters, shown as ASCII. It's because CSV files only support ASCII. Renaming the file to something.txt and then importing it to Excel should probably make Excel recognize the UTF-8 characters.

Yep, you and thp are right - that was the issue. If I rename it as TXT and go through a slightly more painful process to open it, it works just fine.

Originally Posted by Palleman View Post
Or you could send me the CSV file, and I'll send you a good-looking XLS back.
I wish I could do that, but I couldn't ever send or share everyone's personal info, even if it saves me a ton of pain...

Edit: But if you could send me a good-looking Swede...