Fixing csv export/import, add new config option for csv export encoding (utf-8 || iso-8895-15)

client/src/app/core/marked-translations.ts

@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ _('Allow access for anonymous guest users');
 _('Show this text on the login page');
 _('Export');
 _('Separator used for all csv exports and examples');
+_('Default encoding for all csv exports');
 _('Page number alignment in PDF');
 _('Left');
 _('Center');

client/src/app/core/ui-services/base-import.service.ts

@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ export abstract class BaseImportService<V extends BaseViewModel> {
     public onSelectFile(event: any): void {
         // TODO type
         if (event.target.files && event.target.files.length === 1) {
-            if (event.target.files[0].type === 'text/csv') {
+            if (event.target.files[0].type.startsWith('text/csv')) {
                 this._rawFile = event.target.files[0];
                 this.readFile(event.target.files[0]);
             } else {

client/src/app/core/ui-services/csv-export.service.ts

@@ -83,10 +83,12 @@ export class CsvExportService {
         filename: string,
         {
             lineSeparator = '\r\n',
-            columnSeparator = this.config.instant('general_csv_separator')
+            columnSeparator = this.config.instant('general_csv_separator'),
+            encoding = this.config.instant('general_csv_encoding')
         }: {
             lineSeparator?: string;
             columnSeparator?: string;
+            encoding?: 'utf-8' | 'iso-8859-15';
         } = {}
     ): void {
         let csvContent = []; // Holds all lines as arrays with each column-value
@@ -153,8 +155,12 @@ export class CsvExportService {
                 return line.map(entry => tsList[0] + entry + tsList[0]).join(columnSeparator);
             })
             .join(lineSeparator);
-
+        const filetype = `text/csv;charset=${encoding}`;
-        this.exporter.saveFile(csvContentAsString, filename, 'text/csv');
+        if (encoding === 'iso-8859-15') {
+            this.exporter.saveFile(this.exporter.convertTo8859_15(csvContentAsString), filename, filetype);
+        } else {
+            this.exporter.saveFile(csvContentAsString, filename, filetype);
+        }
     }
 
     /**

client/src/app/core/ui-services/file-export.service.ts

@@ -35,4 +35,18 @@ export class FileExportService {
         const pattern = new RegExp(/^[^\\\/\?%\*:\|\"\<\>]*[^\.]+$/i);
         return pattern.test(filename);
     }
+
+    /**
+     * get an iso-8859-15 - compatible blob part
+     *
+     * @param data
+     * @returns a Blob part
+     */
+    public convertTo8859_15(data: string): BlobPart {
+        const array = new Uint8Array(new ArrayBuffer(data.length));
+        for (let i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
+            array[i] = data.charCodeAt(i);
+        }
+        return array;
+    }
 }

openslides/core/config_variables.py

@@ -138,6 +138,20 @@ def get_config_variables():
         subgroup="Export",
     )
 
+    yield ConfigVariable(
+        name="general_csv_encoding",
+        default_value="utf-8",
+        input_type="choice",
+        label="Default encoding for all csv exports",
+        choices=(
+            {"value": "utf-8", "display_name": "UTF-8"},
+            {"value": "iso-8859-15", "display_name": "ISO-8859-15"},
+        ),
+        weight=143,
+        group="General",
+        subgroup="Export",
+    )
+
     yield ConfigVariable(
         name="general_export_pdf_pagenumber_alignment",
         default_value="center",