[Koha] Byte Order Mark issue importing patrons

[Tomas Cohen Arazi]

I'd fill a bug on http://bugs.koha-community.org, and maybe some developer
will take on the issue. My feeling is that this could be syspref-driven or
even using a checkbox at the download dialog.

Regards
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On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Coehoorn, Joel <jcoehoorn at york.edu> wrote:

> I have a report to export a patron csv file from our student information
> system, suitable for use with the koha patron import tool. I want our
> librarians to be able to use every semester to import new freshmen and
> transfers to koha, without further IT assistance. They run a report, save
> it as a CSV file, and use that file for the import.
>
> Unfortunately, in testing this when I go to import the file I get an error
> message: "header row could not be parsed". I get an additional error for
> every row in the file, which is not surprising given the failure with the
> header row. I'm sure you've all heard this one before.
>
> Here's where things get different. I can open the file in Notepad++ and
> change the encoding to use not use a byte order mark. I save the *same
> file*, import that into koha, and **everything works fine**.  The only
> thing different is the lack of a byte order mark.
>
> I cannot cause my reports tool to not use a BOM, and it's asking a lot of
> my librarians to edit the CSV file in this way. Is there anything I can do
> to tell koha to ignore that BOM? Should this be filed as a bug somewhere?
> In searching google on this issue, I think many others may have had this
> same problem in the past, but not been able to solve it.
>
> For what it's worth, I'd also love to see a koha stack exchange site, as
> these questions are exactly the kind of thing stack exchange excels at
> producing solutions for.
>
>   Joel Coehoorn
> Director of Information Technology
> York College, Nebraska
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> jcoehoorn at york.edu
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