http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=10117 Bug ID: 10117 Summary: Byte Order Mark breaks Patron Import Classification: Unclassified Change sponsored?: --- Product: Koha Version: 3.8 Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P5 - low Component: Patrons Assignee: koha-bugs@lists.koha-community.org Reporter: jcoehoorn@york.edu CC: gmcharlt@gmail.com, kyle.m.hall@gmail.com If a csv file for importing patrons has a byte order mark, the patron import tool will not parse the header row correctly, causing additional errors for every record in the file. Byte order marks are invisible in most text editors, and created automatically by a lot of reporting tools, especially on newer versions of Windows. To reproduce: Create a valid patron import file that includes a byte order mark (Notepad++ can alter an existing file to include one, if needed). Try to import that patrons and observe the error. Now re-save the same file without the byte order mark. Try again to import the file, and observe that it succeeds. Based on my Google searches when I encountered the problem, I am confident a lot of other people have also run into this issue, but not known how to identify or resolve it. I observed this bug in 3.8. I don't have newer versions to test against, but I expect it still exists today in more recent versions. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.