Issue 9: Characters in portuguese shown differently
Status:  Fixed
Owner: ----
Closed:  Jun 2009
Reported by moonligh...@gmail.com, Jun 5, 2009
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Get my tweets
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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I write in portuguese. So I expected to see our special characters, as I
see them at my Tweeter client. But, instead, for instance, of "avião", I
got "avião". Instead of "Você toma pílula", I got "Você toma pílula?"

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?


Please provide any additional information below.
Is that UTF-8?

Jul 3, 2009
#1 DebFro...@gmail.com
I'm pretty sure this is an Excel issue since the file produced is text .csv and so 
the character set used doesn't support accents, or anything beyond the basic ASCII 
set.
Jul 4, 2009
Project Member #2 alfredarmstrong@gmail.com
Actually I suspect it may be possible to make the CSV file UTF-8 encoded but I
haven't yet had time to investigate, sorry. 
Jul 12, 2009
#3 claudio...@gmail.com
I agree with DebFromBC. This is a Windows configuration or excel.
Jul 22, 2009
#4 juha.las...@gmail.com
Try this (it worked for Chinese & there is an option for Portuguese)
https://code.google.com/p/tweetake/issues/detail?id=17#c1

Sep 7, 2009
Project Member #5 alfredarmstrong@gmail.com
The problems with characters outside the basic English character set should
now be fixed as the code translates what is received from Twitter into
UTF-16 (Excel's preferred Unicode representation) before download.
Status: Fixed