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1276013 - Strange characters displays in a Text Editor when opening a report exported to CSV format from Crystal Reports

Symptom

  • 0xEFBBBF
  • Characters like: 0xEFBBBF are displayed in the exported file.
  • CSV file contains garbage characters like: ï,»,¿, at beginning of file.
  • When exporting a report to CSV format from Crystal Reports, it add hexadecimals, or strange characters at the beginning of the generated CSV file.


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Environment

  • SAP Crystal Reports 2008
  • SAP Crystal Reports 2011
  • SAP Crystal Reports 2013
  • SAP Crystal Reports 2016
  • SAP Crystal Reports 2020

Product

Crystal Reports 2008 V1 ; SAP Crystal Reports 2011 ; SAP Crystal Reports 2013 ; SAP Crystal Reports 2016

Keywords

CSV,Hex,CR,standard , KBA , BI-RA-CR , Crystal Reports designer or Business View Manager , Problem

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