Spanish characters in a CSV file

If your school, teacher, class or student data files contain Spanish characters (á, é, í, ó, ú, ü, ñ, ¿, or ¡), you need to encode your files to preserve the characters in the CSV.

Preserve Spanish characters

To preserve your Spanish characters on a PC:

1. Download the starter template .csv file from the relevant tab on the Customer Admin page.

2. Open the template file and add and edit your data in Excel and save changes. Select the “Yes” button in the first dialog box that displays.

   

3. Exit Excel by selecting the X in the top right hand corner. Select the “No” in the “save changes” dialog box that displays.

   

4. Open Notepad++. If you need to download Notepad++ (free) on to your computer, you can use this link or do your own search.

5. In Notepad ++, open the .csv document you just saved in step #3. (File ->Open and navigate to the file.)

6. In the top menu bar, select Encoding -> Convert to UTF-8 without BOM.

   

7. Save the file in Notepad++ by selecting File ->Save as-> and save as a .csv file.

8. Upload your file back into EasyBridge with the customer admin tools.

Note: When using a Mac, use TextEdit in place of Notepad++.