Matt Hegarty

- What encoding is the import csv file set to? - Are you setting `admin.from_encoding` anywhere? - can you supply an example of the failing file?

I tried importing the emoji char in a csv file on the `django-import-export` test env, and it worked fine, and since it works in dev for you, we can rule...

> Do you have any clue on where to look for differences in the two environment that could have lead to interpreting the csv file with ascii encoding ? -...

@rarjpg Would it be possible to open this as a separate issue?. Please include enough information to help us understand the issue. Include steps to reproduce and an example file....

Done - thanks

I had a look at the API and concluded that it wasn't straightforward to override and specify filters for an export. This could be a useful addition.

I suggest try to run with [3.0.0 beta](https://pypi.org/project/django-import-export/3.0.0b4/) just in case this helps. As you say, it is likely there is a clash with one or more of your other...

Thanks so much for all your efforts on this :+1:

@manelclos Thanks for reviewing. I'll look into this further. I'm going to move this to draft because this changes similar code to #1277. Also there are further opportunities for UX...

> To improve this PR, what about checking for dataset.headers just before trying to access dataset.dict? I had a look into importing files with no header row. If done via...