fix_csv_encoding
Fix a CSV that opens garbled in Excel
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Detect the real encoding of a CSV (GB18030, Shift-JIS, Windows-1252…), repair mojibake (UTF-8 that was read as Latin-1, e.g. "é"), and re-emit UTF-8 with a BOM so Excel opens it correctly.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | no | Public URL of the CSV. |
| text | string | no | Or paste the CSV content directly. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"url": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Public URL of the CSV."
},
"text": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Or paste the CSV content directly."
}
},
"required": []
}