csv export doesn't work with UK demographics example

[mikad98]

I managed to get the "Other Areas" example running with the respective UK files. However, if I want to export data in the csv-format (exporter.csv.export = true), I get the following error:

java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at org.mitre.synthea.export.CSVExporter.getInstance(CSVExporter.java:374)
...
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Null charset name
at java.base/java.nio.charset.Charset.lookup(Charset.java:454)
...

Do you have any idea how to solve this? Thank you so much for your help!

[jawalonoski]

Your synthea.properties file needs to have a charset specified in exporter.encoding.

Not sure when this was added, but apparently it did not come with a default value in the code.

For example,

exporter.encoding = UTF-8

I'm going to create an issue, because this is a bug.

[jawalonoski]

Created #1131

[jawalonoski]

This should be fixed now.