CSV files should maintain a consistent text encoding

[dp-github]

The CSV files in the daily reports directory use different text encodings.

$ file *csv
01-22-2020.csv: UTF-8 Unicode (with BOM) text, with CRLF line terminators
01-23-2020.csv: UTF-8 Unicode (with BOM) text, with CRLF line terminators
01-24-2020.csv: UTF-8 Unicode (with BOM) text, with CRLF line terminators
01-25-2020.csv: UTF-8 Unicode (with BOM) text, with CRLF line terminators
01-26-2020.csv: UTF-8 Unicode (with BOM) text, with CRLF line terminators
01-27-2020.csv: UTF-8 Unicode (with BOM) text, with CRLF line terminators
01-28-2020.csv: UTF-8 Unicode (with BOM) text, with CRLF line terminators
01-29-2020.csv: UTF-8 Unicode (with BOM) text, with CRLF line terminators
01-30-2020.csv: UTF-8 Unicode (with BOM) text, with CRLF line terminators
01-31-2020.csv: UTF-8 Unicode (with BOM) text, with CRLF line terminators
02-01-2020.csv: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators
02-02-2020.csv: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators
02-03-2020.csv: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators
02-04-2020.csv: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators
02-05-2020.csv: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators
02-06-2020.csv: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators
02-07-2020.csv: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators
02-08-2020.csv: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators
02-09-2020.csv: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators
02-10-2020.csv: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators
02-11-2020.csv: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators
02-12-2020.csv: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators
02-13-2020.csv: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators
02-14-2020.csv: ASCII text
02-15-2020.csv: ASCII text
02-16-2020.csv: ASCII text
02-17-2020.csv: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators
02-18-2020.csv: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators
02-19-2020.csv: ASCII text
02-20-2020.csv: ASCII text
02-21-2020.csv: ASCII text
02-22-2020.csv: ASCII text
02-23-2020.csv: ASCII text
02-24-2020.csv: ASCII text
02-25-2020.csv: ASCII text
02-26-2020.csv: ASCII text
02-27-2020.csv: ASCII text
02-28-2020.csv: ASCII text
02-29-2020.csv: ASCII text
03-01-2020.csv: ASCII text
03-02-2020.csv: ASCII text
03-03-2020.csv: ASCII text
03-04-2020.csv: ASCII text
03-05-2020.csv: ASCII text
03-06-2020.csv: ASCII text
03-07-2020.csv: ASCII text

[MehranDHN]

#271

[CSSEGISandData]

Thank you for the observation. We will look into this when building out future capabilities.

[SebastianHelm]

Which one is preferred? It doesn't seem like Unicode is necessary, since all text has been written using the Latin alphabet; all local names have been transcribed. Any prospect that there may arise a need to change that?