Outlook – How to export contacts with unicode characters from Outlook 2013

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I have some contacts with Chinese names and when I do the following sequence of steps to generate a CSV file, it prints out ??? in place where the Chinese characters are.
File -> Open & Export
Select Import / Export
Select Export to a file
Select Common Separated Values (no Excel)
Select Contact folder to export from
….

I have searched online and it appears with Outlook 2010 there is an option to save as an Excel format rather than a CSV format. I have also tried changing my default system language to Chinese. However neither makes any differences.

Can someone advise what can be done to export non English characters from Outlook 2013?

Thanks.

Best Answer

Okay believe it or not if you import the CSV with the corrupted characters they magically would be rendered properly in Outlook.

Obviously please take a backup of the Outlook data file first before doing so.

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