Symptom
- Incorrect characters.
- Report exported to text shows question marks.
- When exporting a report to Tab Separated Text, or Text format, or CSV, some text shows strange and incorrect characters.
- Report exported to text format from Crystal Reports shows characters as question marks for languages like Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Greek, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese...
- Exporting from an application using Crystal Reports for Visual studio always exports in ANSI encoding.
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Environment
- SAP Crystal Reports 2016
- SAP Crystal Reports 2020
- SAP Crystal Reports 2025
- SAP Crystal Report, Developer for Visual Studio
Product
SAP Crystal Reports 2016 ; SAP Crystal Reports 2020 ; SAP Crystal Reports 2025 ; SAP Crystal Reports, developer version for Microsoft Visual Studio
Keywords
Crystal report, Exporting, txt, text. CR, cr for vs, utf-8 , KBA , BI-RA-CR , Crystal Reports designer or Business View Manager , Problem
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