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Countermination for garbled characters

Power Automate can be automated regardless of web service or on -premises software, but when handling external data, it is necessary to pay attention to character code.

This section describes how to deal with the output files garbled.

Check the encoding settings​

An action that outputs the data handled as an external file, such as "Write XML to a file", has a parameter called "Encoding".

If the output data is used using such an action, it may be solved by changing this "encoding" parameter.

When the characters are garbled with Windows notepad​

Basically, in Windows in Japan, SHIFT-JIS is set as standard for character code.

Notepad pre -installed on Windows uses this standard setting, so opening a different character code text file may be garbled.

If you want to open the output data in a notepad, you can solve it by setting the "Encoded" setting to "ANSI".

When reusing the output data​

If data is output to reflect in another software, some Japanese software supports "ANSI", but basically set to "UTF-8". We recommend that you keep it.