Windchill supports international character sets and must share data across different environments. The Windchill load utilities require that the XML data files be encoded in UTF-8.

The CSV2XML utility can work with CSV files written in different encoding. The encoding of the source CSV file should be specified in the command line as follows:

If the -encoding argument is not specified, the CSV2XML utility uses the operating system’s default encoding. The output XML file will be always in UTF-8.