I'd fill a bug on http://bugs.koha-community.org, and maybe some developer will take on the issue. My feeling is that this could be syspref-driven or even using a checkbox at the download dialog.
Regards To+ On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Coehoorn, Joel <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a report to export a patron csv file from our student information > system, suitable for use with the koha patron import tool. I want our > librarians to be able to use every semester to import new freshmen and > transfers to koha, without further IT assistance. They run a report, save > it as a CSV file, and use that file for the import. > > Unfortunately, in testing this when I go to import the file I get an error > message: "header row could not be parsed". I get an additional error for > every row in the file, which is not surprising given the failure with the > header row. I'm sure you've all heard this one before. > > Here's where things get different. I can open the file in Notepad++ and > change the encoding to use not use a byte order mark. I save the *same > file*, import that into koha, and **everything works fine**. The only > thing different is the lack of a byte order mark. > > I cannot cause my reports tool to not use a BOM, and it's asking a lot of > my librarians to edit the CSV file in this way. Is there anything I can do > to tell koha to ignore that BOM? Should this be filed as a bug somewhere? > In searching google on this issue, I think many others may have had this > same problem in the past, but not been able to solve it. > > For what it's worth, I'd also love to see a koha stack exchange site, as > these questions are exactly the kind of thing stack exchange excels at > producing solutions for. > > Joel Coehoorn > Director of Information Technology > York College, Nebraska > 402.363.5603 > [email protected] > > > > *The mission of York College is to transform lives through > Christ-centered education and to equip students for lifelong service to > God, family, and society* > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > [email protected] > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
