Special characters (é, è, ç, etc) in downloaded CSV files
A problem with Microsoft Excel can cause issues for customers with accented (non-English) characters in downloaded CSV files. This issue is known to Microsoft as:
"Microsoft Excel is unable to properly display UTF-8 compliant CSV files when they contain non-English characters."
If you are affected by this issue, you can resolve it yourself. Here are the steps:
On a Windows computer, open the CSV file using Notepad.
Click "File > Save As".
In the dialog window that appears - select "ANSI" from the "Encoding" field. Then click "Save".
Open this new CSV file using Excel.
Non-English characters will now appear correctly in the file.
On a Mac, you can resolve the issue by using Numbers to open the file instead of Excel.