The Cause of Corrupted Characters in Shopify Catalogs
Standard Excel installations on Windows often files in regional encodings (like GBK, Windows-1252, or UTF-16) instead of standard web-ready UTF-8. When Shopify's web-based database attempts to read these regional files, foreign letters, special symbols, and Asian characters get corrupted, resulting in broken product listings.
Common Scenarios:
- Product descriptions displaying corrupted black question marks () or strange text patterns after uploading.
- Foreign language diacritics (like é, ü, or ñ) turning into unreadable code strings on localized store pages.
- The Shopify bulk importer rejecting your file immediately with a 'File is not encoded in UTF-8' error.
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