UTF8 encoding in file extract without the BOM header

Question

Hello,

I'm having an issue with a csv file extraction. The need is to have it encoded in UTF8 but ACC adds the byte order mark at the begining of the file.

Any idea how to get simple UTF8 extraction or remove the BOM please ?

Thank you.

Darren_Bowers · Accepted Answer

Hi @anasso83525035 - you can get the resulting file name from the CSV extraction activity and run some Javascript to execCommand() some command line sed functions to do this (provided your host is Linux)

https://docs.adobe.com/content/help/en/campaign-classic/technicalresources/api/f-execCommand.html

https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/381263

Cheers

Darren

anasso83525035 · Answer

Hello @darren_bowers

Thanks for the answer, I have been trying to implement that, but still get the following error :

-53
sudo: a password is required

Can you please tell me if my CMD command is constructed correctly :

//instance.vars.fileToSend is the complete path to the file extracted in the activity before

var CMD = '"'+"sed -i '1s/\xEF\xBB\xBF//' "+instance.vars.fileToSend+'"'

logInfo('command remove bom ===>'+CMD);
var res =execCommand(CMD,true);

instance.vars.retour = res[0];

logInfo('Code retour commande : ' + res[0]);

logInfo('Résultat commande : ' + res[1]);

logInfo('Fin');

Thank you.

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