Selecting Character Encoding for a File

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You may need to specify a character encoding when importing or exporting information such as user and department data using a text file such as in the CSV format.
Screenshot: A screen to import a file. Character Encoding is displayed.

If you are not sure which character encoding you should use, refer to the following information.

UTF-8

A character encoding that can handle the characters of major languages.

Shift-JIS

Use this when the data to export/import to and from the file contains Japanese.

Latin1

Use this when the data to export/import to and from the file contains Western European languages (including English, French, and German).

GBK/GB2312

Use this when the data to export/import to and from the file contains English and Simplified Chinese.