When importing contact information into Clicktools, if you happen to have a lot of foreign names with non-standard characters (i.e., Øvermo Björn), make sure you're not saving your .csv document as an Excel file because it will strip out these characters in transition. Excel's .csv format does not support UTF-8 encoding.
To ensure you don't lose your non-standard (non ASCII-128) characters such as e.g. Ø and ö, save your spreadsheet as 'Unicode Text.'
If you are importing from Google, then it is okay to save the Google doc as a .csv because Google adopts the UTF-8 encoding and protects all the letters.
Clicktools will always maintain the character encoding as it exists in the import file. You can import Contact details into Clicktools the following file types:
Clicktools will always maintain the character encoding as it exists in the import file. You can import Contact details into Clicktools the following file types:
- UTF-8,
- UTF-16,
- Comma Separated (CSV)
- Pipe | delimited
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Rose Cruse
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