Questions tagged [shift-jis]

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How to set character encoding when opening a CSV file in Excel?

Is it possible to set the default encoding for Excel (any version, e.g. 2010) when opening files like csv files (like you can in Open Office Calc)? I When I try to open a csv file encoded in Japanese SHIFT-JIS, it opens but with mojibake (corrupted…
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How can I fix broken shift-JIS filenames?

I've got some files with shift-jis filenames in ANSI. e.g. home_03@‚¢ƒgƒ‰ƒ“ƒNŠJ‚¢‚½Aƒtƒ@ƒCƒ‹—L‚è when they should be in shift-jis like home_03@青いトランク開いた、ファイル有り This is because the archive extractor I'm using doesn't support shift-jis. That…
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Utility for converting Shift-JIS encoded files to UTF-8 encoded files

My client has a ton of Japanese text files which are encoded in Shift-JIS. They need a utility which can convert these files to UTF-8. Ideally the tool would offer both command-line and interactive options. Do you have any suggestions?
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How to convert UTF-8 to SHIFT-JIS using vba

I am developing an application that reads from a text file and writes to a CSV file. Since characters in the text file are UTF-8, the CSV file also contain the same characters. Because of UTF-8, Double Byte(Japanese Character) cannot be written…
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Trouble saving an Excel document as tab delimited file with japanese Shift-JIS

Trying to save an excel document containing Japanese characters as a tab delimited file with Japanese Shift-JIS I have done the following steps. Change the character encoding setting in the following steps before entering the product information in…