Three common sources of mojibake
The garbage usually enters the file in one of these ways:
Common Scenarios:
- Excel 'Save As CSV' keeps the system locale encoding instead of UTF-8.
- Export tools from other platforms (Amazon, Etsy, AliExpress) save in their own regional encoding.
- A text editor converted the file with the wrong character set and replaced unknown bytes.
Repair the file, not the products
ShopTools re-exports your CSV as UTF-8 with BOM, fixes quote and separator damage caused by encoding conversions, and keeps every product intact.
Features:
- UTF-8 re-export: BOM-prefixed output Excel and Shopify both read correctly
- Quote repair: Fixes quote and separator damage from conversions
- Content preserved: Products are not rewritten - only the encoding is fixed