Discover encoding difficulties

January 31st, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,

I’ve been spending some time with Omniture Discover lately. What a truly amazing product Discover is, I’m almost speechless.
Unfortunately it does have a few rough edges here and there, character encoding difficulties being an example.

This is what the Danish characters æ ø and å looks like inside Discover: (perfect)

Character encoding in Omniture Discover

This is the same data after being exported in Excel format by Omniture Discover: (not pretty)

Character encoding in Omniture Discover Excel output

Share and Enjoy:
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • TwitThis
  • StumbleUpon
  • Technorati
  • Netvibes
  • Slashdot
Leave a comment
  1. FibreFoX
    June 23rd, 2010 at 10:39
    Reply | Quote | #1

    It is common known, that the excel-fileformat is weird. If it’s just data, try to export it in CVS-format with using UTF-8. But don’t make the mistake and open it with excel just by double-clicking … UTF-8 is still not “normal” in M$oft Excel.