Special Character Problem In MS Excel

Hi All,
I have a field like Ship to Name and value of that field is 'Fire Systems US - Northford ' .When we download this field into Microsoft excel we are getting like Fire Systems US âu20ACu201C Northford . Hear special character (âu20ACu201C) is updating insted of Hypen(-).
How can we download the the same ship to name with out any special character in Microsoft excel.
Please help me.
Thanks,
Venkat

Hi Venkat,
If you can verify that whether the special character is from SAP or excel. This you need to verify by de-bugging in SAP and then by opening the downloaded file in notepad.
Please refer the link below for details:
Link: [Re: FM: GUI_DOWNLOAD not picking initial zero]
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Pranav.

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