Universal data writer character set

CloverDX Platform
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Hi,
I am using universal data writer to create files for exporting to another system. The charater set is the default ISO 8859-1. My graph failed because it could not translate a russian name Лара. What character set should I use so that it can properly read that and create the csv file.
Thanks,
Kasturi

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Hi Kasturi,

The most common charset for these unicode issues is UTF-8.

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Not “universal”, but if you’re interacting with a legacy system that specifically processes Russian text, it’s possible that you instead need a legacy non-Unicode encoding, such as “IBM866”, ISO-8859-5, KOI8-R or “windows-1251”. That said, as a first try, UTF-8 is the natural choice; I’m not sure why Clover uses ISO-8859-1 as the default, it seems like it should either be US-ASCII (to catch encoding problems early) or UTF-8 (widest repertoire).