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CSV in UTF-8 with BOM

By: Marise Sal | Asked: 03/22/2025
Forums › Category: General questions › CSV in UTF-8 with BOM
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Marise Sal asked 4 weeks ago

Hi, I’ve tried the shortcodes from these articles for exporting CSV with UTF-8 BOM encoding, but they’re not working:

Has anyone found a solution for this issue?

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Victor Font Staff answered 4 weeks ago

Neither of those articles are about shortcodes. They are custom PHP snippets. Out of curiosity, why are you using BOM? According to the unicode standard, use of a Byte Order Mark is neither required nor recommended for UTF-8, but may be encountered in contexts where UTF-8 data is converted from other encoding forms that use a BOM or where the BOM is used as a UTF-8 signature.

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Marise Sal answered 4 weeks ago

Sorry I meant PHP snippet. Anyway, I want to export CSV as BOM because I have entries in Arabic language.

Victor Font Staff replied 4 weeks ago

UTF-8 with BOM exporting is built into Formidable Forms. You don't have to use any code snippet at all. Select the UTF-8 with BOM from the CSV Encoding Format dropdown as shown in the Knowledgebase: <a href="https://formidableforms.com/knowledgebase/export-forms-entries-views/&quot; rel="nofollow">https://formidableforms.com/knowledgebase/export-forms-entries-views/</a&gt;

Marise Sal replied 4 weeks ago

### I replied with an image but my replied is pending approval.

In Views, there's no option to export CSV with "UTF-8 with BOM", only UTF-8

Victor Font Staff replied 4 weeks ago

UTF-8 with BOM is definitely available in the export view as csv add-on. I just checked it in my dev environment and it's shown in the knowledgebase documentation. https://formidableforms.com/knowledgebase/table-view-to-csv/#kb-schedule-automatic-exports

Marise Sal replied 4 weeks ago

<p>I don't have UTF-8 with BOM https://i.ibb.co/xSpDP9QR/Screenshot-2025-03-23-193434.png</p&gt;

Victor Font Staff replied 4 weeks ago

Export views Ver. 1.09 added BOM to the dropdown. If you have a current Formidable license, update the add-on. The current version is 1.10..

Marise Sal replied 4 weeks ago

Do you know where I can find this version for a lower price? I can't afford to pay $200 for it on the official website.

Victor Font Staff replied 4 weeks ago

The Formidable website is the only place to update your license and download their add-ons.

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