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Encoding & Special Characters

International transactions with special characters, BOM markers, and mixed encodings. Common when dealing with foreign vendors or multinational bank accounts.

Medium BANK
10
Total Rows
10
Valid (date+amount)
0
Invalid/Skipped
0
Warnings
A
Grade (100%)

Known Problems in This Document

  • UTF-8 BOM (\xEF\xBB\xBF) at file start
  • Vendor names with accents: Ménard, García, Müller
  • Currency symbols: £, €, ¥ mixed in amounts
  • Em-dash (—) and en-dash (–) used instead of minus
  • Smart quotes in descriptions
  • NULL bytes from mainframe export

Actual Parser Errors & Warnings

No errors or warnings

Side-by-Side: Original Document vs Parser Extraction

Original Document Content (encoding_chaos_bank.csv)
Parser Extraction Result
1 Date,Amount,Description,Reference,Balance
Skipped (header row)
2 03/01/2026,-1500.00,Paiement à Ménard & Fils (Montréal),PAY-FR-001,13500.00
2026-03-01 -1500.00 Paiement à Ménard & Fils (Montréal) PAY-FR-001
3 03/04/2026,-2200.00,Pago a García Hermanos S.A.,PAY-ES-001,11300.00
2026-03-04 -2200.00 Pago a García Hermanos S.A. PAY-ES-001
4 03/07/2026,-800.00,Zahlung an Müller GmbH - Rechnung #4421,PAY-DE-001,10500.00
2026-03-07 -800.00 Zahlung an Müller GmbH - Rechnung #4421 PAY-DE-001
5 03/10/2026,5000.00,Wire from Café du Monde — Invoice Settlement,WIR-FR-001,15500.00
2026-03-10 5000.00 Wire from Café du Monde — Invoice Settlement WIR-FR-001
6 03/13/2026,-350.00,£75.00 + €275.00 – Multi-currency payment,FX-001,15150.00
2026-03-13 -350.00 £75.00 + €275.00 – Multi-currency payment FX-001
7 03/16/2026,-1100.00,Payment to Björk & Söderström AB,PAY-SE-001,14050.00
2026-03-16 -1100.00 Payment to Björk & Söderström AB PAY-SE-001
8 03/19/2026,3000.00,Customer payment – Tanaka 株式会社,RCV-JP-001,17050.00
2026-03-19 3000.00 Customer payment – Tanaka 株式会社 RCV-JP-001
9 03/22/2026,-425.00,Office supplies “smart quotes” test,SUP-001,16625.00
2026-03-22 -425.00 Office supplies “smart quotes” test SUP-001
10 03/25/2026,-90.00,Monthly fee—no space around em-dash,FEE-001,16535.00
2026-03-25 -90.00 Monthly fee—no space around em-dash FEE-001
11 03/28/2026,-275.00,¥275 converted at spot rate 0.0067,FX-002,16260.00
2026-03-28 -275.00 ¥275 converted at spot rate 0.0067 FX-002
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