csv import of Cyrillic characters breaks encoding

[fetsorn]

Reproduce

Upload a csv file with Cyrillic characters

english,russian
word,слово

Memcode creates a card

word - слово

[lakesare]

Excel&CSV tend to have issues with encoding. We just deployed plain-text imports, this should fix the issue with Cyrillic text.

[fetsorn]

tested yesterday and still can reproduce the same issue exactly the same. the bug persists. file is utf-8 according to file -i.

[lakesare]

Sorry for confusing wording - I meant to say that our new "import flashcards from plain text" functionality probably solves your issue with CSV/Excel file encodings, because now you can simply copypaste your CSV file into the "Create flashcards from text" section, which shouldn't have any issues with encoding.

Can you check if that works for you?

[fetsorn]

yes, copypasting plain text creates flashcards correctly. requires copying and rewriting the file to the pipe-separated format though. thanks

file import is a "won't fix" then?

if you think it's a bug in some dependency, please say and I'll report there

[lakesare]

Someone might fix it, let's leave the issue open