"text" type does work with the input of multiple languages?

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Are you trying to open a CSV in Excel? If so, please see

Arabic language in ODK

Excel is terrible at importing CSVs with Unicode characters. Try the following... Open Excel Import the data using Data-->Import External Data --> Import Data Select the file type of "csv" and browse to your file In the import wizard change the File_Origin to "65001 UTF" (or choose correct language character identifier) Change the Delimiter to comma More at http://stackoverflow.com/a/6488070 and http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/choose-text-encoding-when-you-open-and-save-file…