Fix/csv utf8 bom Improve CSV UTF-8 compatibility with Excel - #497
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Summary
Prepend a UTF-8 BOM to exported CSV files so spreadsheet applications such as Microsoft Excel can reliably detect UTF-8 encoding when opening CSV files directly.
Why
Without a BOM, Excel on Windows may interpret UTF-8 CSV files using a local legacy encoding, which can cause non-ASCII text such as Chinese, Japanese, accented characters, and emoji to display incorrectly.
Change
EF BB BF) before the CSV header.Testing
playDebugAPK successfully using the repository's Build workflow.EF BB BF.Note: some strict CSV consumers that do not handle UTF-8 BOMs may expose it as part of the first header field, though most modern CSV and spreadsheet tools handle it correctly.