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Any hints on how to fix a csv file that has such items so the aggregator doesn&#8217;t misread commas as a separator?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1198130","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Issue with CSV importing due to complex event description -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/issue-with-csv-importing-due-to-complex-event-description\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Issue with CSV importing due to complex event description -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#8217;m trying to migrate from another event calendar system and I have an issue where the event descriptions are very long, include special characters like &#8221; and , and it appears that this confuses the CSV importer where it&#8217;s not able to differentiate between where a description ends and messes up the import. 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