# File encoding detection library

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**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** csv\
**Created:** [October 16, 2020, 7:53am UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/file-encoding-detection-library/34972 "2020-10-16T07:53:30Z")\
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> [@patryk.it](#):
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> and then parse data.

nimble\_csv supports converting data to utf-8 before parsing / converting from utf-8 before dumping. By default it even ships `NimbleCSV.Spreadsheet`, which uses utf-16 le to work with excel csv’s. But you’ll need to setup a module per encoding.

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