Export to CSV

Dear Experts,
We are on BI 7.0 and we came across the following problem :
When we wre exporting to CSV from Web template in Portal, each £ sybmol is accompanied by Â
ie.Â£ 1500 (where it should have been £1500).
When exporting to Excel/ excel 2000, it is working fine. And we export it Excel and save it as CSV, it's showing the values with £ sign only. But my client is not happy to export to Excel and then save it to CSV.
Has anyone come across with this?
Is there an outstanding update / OSS Note / patch etc. from SAP to correct this issue?Or is it more likely IMG seetings issue ?
Thanks

Hi Swapna,
There is one way to export to CSV and below are the steps that we follow.
1.     Execute the ABAP program Z_BI_QUERY_TO_CSV as batchjob. The previous csv file with same name will be removed from the SAP BI server. Then the program will execute the query (selection on the selection-screen).
2.     The query is executed by the OLAP processor.
3.     The OLAP processor will read the values for variables in the user-exit EXIT_SAPLRRS0_001 (RSR00001) (enhancement concept BEXVAR).
4.     The data is selected from DSO or infocube.
5.     The data is formatted to cvs-format (separator is selection field for the program) and saved on the SAP BI server in the directory DIR_CSV.
6.     After those files are created, the program Z_BI_COPY_FILE_TO_DESKTOP can be used to copy the files from the SAP BI server to your local PC. Must always be executed in foreground because there is interaction with the desktop.
7.     You can choose the local directory on the selection-screen.
I hope this will help you.
All the best,
Praveen

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