https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24330 Bug ID: 24330 Summary: When importing patrons from CSV, automatically strip BOM from file if it exists Change sponsored?: --- Product: Koha Version: master Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P5 - low Component: Tools Assignee: koha-bugs@lists.koha-community.org Reporter: kyle@bywatersolutions.com QA Contact: testopia@bugs.koha-community.org We have a partner that exports UTF-8 CSV files, and is experiencing the same thing as the author of this article: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/a-quick-tale-about-feff-the-invisible-char... In short, Excel is inserting an invisible UTF-8 character at the start of the file, so that the column name "cardnumber" is actually named "\x{feff}cardnumber", causing "cardnumber" to be blank. A simple solution is provided here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24390034/remove-bom-from-string-with-per... -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.