Providing an encoding selection option when exporting issues to csv
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Problem to solve
Unicode character corruption on Windows (any software which does not support the utf8).
Further details
The 'Export as CSV' feature is a great one. However, GitLab only support utf8 encoding for multibyte characters, those exported issues with multibyte characters are showing as corrupted when the CSV file is opened by Excel. Apparently, Excel doesn't support the utf8 encoding as default.
Proposal
It would be great if there is a choice of encoding.
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CP949 for Korean. -
CP936 for Simplified Chinese. -
ShiftJIS for Japanese.
Using iconv tool would be good enough.
Links / references
This shows there is a cumbersome way to fix this issue on Excel: https://superuser.com/a/1172114. It would be good if GitLab provides an option to choose an encoding that user's Excel can read and display correctly.