[Suggest] NONMEM adds UTF-8 support for csv files

From: Mark Tepeck Date: June 03, 2018 technical Source: cognigen.com
Hi NONMEM Users, As a PK scientist, I often manipulate csv files with Microsoft Excel, R, and NONMEM. As some of you may have seen, if the first record in a csv file is a string “ID”, Microsoft Excel would mistake it as an SYLK file which cannot be opened normally by Excel. One workaround is to use any strings other than ID, e.g. id, '‘ID’. However, this may cause new problems in some scenarios. Another potential solution is to use the R function readr::write_excel_csv ('dataframe.csv') to output a csv file with UTF-8 Byte order mark. Unfortunately, this csv file turned out to become unreadable for NONMEM although Excel likes it. Since waiting for bug fixing of Excel by Microsoft is not optimistic, I would truly appreciate it if NONMEM can add UTF-8 support. Thank you, Mark Tepeck