https://sonarly.com/issue/21060?type=bug CSV exports containing Arabic (or other non-Latin) characters display as garbled text when opened in spreadsheet applications because the exported file lacks a UTF-8 Byte Order Mark (BOM). Fix: Added a UTF-8 Byte Order Mark (BOM) prefix (`\uFEFF`) to the CSV file content in the `downloader` function. **What changed:** 1. `useRecordIndexExportRecords.ts`: Added a `UTF8_BOM` constant and prepended it to the generated CSV content when creating the Blob. This signals to Excel and other spreadsheet applications that the file uses UTF-8 encoding, which is required for proper rendering of Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, and other non-Latin characters. 2. `useRecordIndexExportRecords.test.ts`: Added a test for `csvDownloader` that verifies the UTF-8 BOM is present at the start of the exported file and that Arabic characters are preserved in the output. **Why this works:** JavaScript's `Blob` encodes strings as UTF-8, but spreadsheet applications like Excel default to the system's ANSI codepage when opening CSV files. The BOM character (U+FEFF) at the start of the file tells these applications to interpret the file as UTF-8, which correctly handles all Unicode characters including Arabic.
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