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NareshGuntur
Partner - Specialist
Partner - Specialist

Messy characters while loading data into QlikView

While reading particular fields, I am getting messy characters(? 州方天电脑网络有 ?公 ?).

Cheers,

Naresh

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rbecher
MVP
MVP

Hi Naresh,

the cause could be a wrong or mixed encoding, or an encryption. Could you provide more details?

- Ralf

Astrato.io Head of R&D
MarcoWedel

Hi Naresh,

google translates your messy characters as:

"? State party day computer networks have? Public?"

Maybe this is valid content of your data sources after all?

regards

Marco

rbecher
MVP
MVP

Sounds a bit senseless.. 😉

Astrato.io Head of R&D
MarcoWedel

Without the question marks:

"State parties have a fair day computer networks"


Maybe any chinese speaking community member can tell if this makes any sense?


Thanks


Regards


Marco

NareshGuntur
Partner - Specialist
Partner - Specialist
Author

Hi,

Thanks all for the responses.

Please find my attachment.

FYI, those are not Chinese name...  normal English words.

Cheers

rbecher
MVP
MVP

You have mutiple byte order marks in the data. You will see it with a hex editor: EF BF BF

Wikipedia:

The byte order mark (BOM) is a Unicode character used to signal the endianness (byte order) of a text file or stream.

I don't know yet how to fix but you should probably talk to the owner of the data..

Astrato.io Head of R&D