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