Bulk import changes encoding of data

[martinN]

Hello,
I’m using the activity “BulkAddQueueItems” and it is a lot faster than the normally used “AddQueueItem”.
But now I discovered that e.g. the German umlauts are incorrectly coded. While reading the data from a csv file I use “readCSVFile” into a datatable and set the encoding to “Windows 1252”.
After the import I find the German umlauts are wrong. There I can read the word “M\u00fcnster” which normally should read “Münster”. With the other character is that the same. I think this encoding is Utf-8.
Normally that is no problem until I see this in data which will be used to create letters and mails.
Any suggestions? How can I prevent this behavior?

thank you in advance.
Kind regards
Martin

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@martinN
playing / adopting the encoding set would be the first option
for checking / adopting the encoding set e.g. notepad++ can help
in case of the issue is not get under control, maybe a correction job is helpfully:

converting all cols:
Removal of Trailing Spaces from Datatable

unescaping unicode:
System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Unescape(unicodeString)
Decode_UnicodeString.xaml (4.7 KB)