How to view special characters with UTF-8 encoding using the File-Delimited data source in TIBCO Data Virtualization?

How to view special characters with UTF-8 encoding using the File-Delimited data source in TIBCO Data Virtualization?

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Article ID: KB0072828

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TIBCO Data Virtualization All supported versions

Description

To view the special characters in TDV, one of the best options present is to use a '.dat' file with a File-Delimited data source.
By default, a File-Delimited data source only has '.csv' and '.txt' files in the 'File Name Filter(s)' field.
So, the user needs to add the option to introspect the '.dat' files in TDV, this can be done as shown below:
File Name Filter(s): *.csv,*.txt, *.dat

Now, the '.dat' files should appear in the Resources list while introspecting the data source.

However, when the user executes the '.dat' file, the output with special characters is not displayed as expected.
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Issue/Introduction

This article will summarize how to view special characters with UTF-8 encoding using the File-Delimited data source in TIBCO Data Virtualization.

Resolution

To view these special characters, the following steps need to be performed:
1. Open the data source.
2. Change the 'Character Set' field to 'utf-8'
3. Save the data source and then re-introspect it.
4. Execute the file and view the results.

The special characters should appear correctly as shown in the screenshot below:

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