Bug Fix: Preservation of math symbols in exported tables#453

When exporting a table that includes the following symbols: ≤ and ≥, the symbol does not get preserved in the exported sheet.

Interesting! Could you share that sheet, and the nest you’re in? I’d like to take a look at the text encoding. It’s possible the sheet viewer you’re using doesn’t understand the encoding; it’s also possible we’re mangling the data at some point.

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Thanks! I hate to say it, but I think the fault is on the sheet viewer application, because it looks correct in my editor (Apple Numbers, also tested on Google Sheets). What sheet editor are you using?

Darn! I’m using Office 365’s Excel. I can ask some of my peers to try to replicate this issue

That’s surprising from such a large product; NK is doing nothing unusual here, the character in your sheet is unicode ≥, shown by its byte sequence of E2 89 A5. Is it possible that office 365/excel doesn’t enable unicode encodings (required to see characters like this) by default?

I have to imagine it’s possible to turn on unicode support in Excel, through one of the endless menu options :D

Hey all– I’m archiving this due to the fact that it seems to be an Excel issue, but please comment here or open a new issue if there are further errors of this type!