Description | This article describes how to open a CSV file downloaded by firewall policy export. |
Scope |
FortiGate. |
Solution |
Garbled text in a CSV file often occurs when the file’s encoding does not match the encoding used by the program reading the file.
This issue is common when dealing with non-English characters:
As FortiGate GUI saves the CSV by UTF-8 encoding, follow the below link to open the UTF-8 CSV file in Excel: |
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