Importing CSV Files into Lead Liaison
Special characters can sometimes cause a problem. The issue is with Microsoft Excel. The workaround is the following:
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7) Import the file into Lead Liaison
Forcing Import of Special Characters
It looks like you have to enclose the CSV fields with quotes in order for the system (which uses php fgetcsv function) to parse those characters correctly. Otherwise they are stripped out. They tried various ways of encoding the file before it's parsed by fgetcsv but it seems to strip the characters out. The problem is the quotes remain in the values.