Libreoffice Calc Opens CSV Spreadsheet File as Asian Language/Chinese Characters Solution Fix

Usually LIbreoffice gets it right, but if it opens a normal English CSV as UTF-16 by default and shows Asian languages, you'll have ot manually open to fix it (don't double click the file from the File Manager).

Solution - Manually Open the File After Opening LibreOffice Calc

You'll see it is defaulting to UTF-16 which breaks everything.

 

Click the dropdown for "Character set:" and then select UTF-8.

 

 

 

After this your CSV should open and display correctly.


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