Normally

Example Column Heading creates an alias example-column-heading

The Problem

Example Column Heading creates an alias qexample-column-headingq

Discussion

The EasyTable component imports text files in a CSV format.

Originally text files were all ASCII files but now with the advent of the Internet and multi-byte character sets there are lots of different encoding formats. Combine this with PHP & server settings and different Operating System platforms and it's very easy to get a file that has been exported incorrectly.

If you have a decent text editor you can do a "hex dump" and see what is actually in the file. For example, this recent file looked like this dumped:

00000000: EF BB BF 22 52 65 73 75 	Ôªø"Resu 
00000008: 6C 74 20 49 64 22 2C 22 	lt Id"," 
00000010: 52 61 63 65 20 49 64 22 	Race Id" 
00000018: 2C 22 54 65 61 6D 22 2C 	,"Team", 
00000020: 22 44 72 69 76 65 72 20 	"Driver  
00000028: 23 31 22 2C 22 43 6F 75 	#1","Cou 
00000030: 6E 74 72 79 20 44 31 22 	ntry D1" 
00000038: 2C 22 44 72 69 76 65 72 	,"Driver 

All those non alphanumeric characters tell us the file isn't properly encoded. The same file saved out as UTF-8 no BOM looks the way it should:

00000000: 22 52 65 73 75 6C 74 20 	"Result  
00000008: 49 64 22 2C 22 52 61 63 	Id","Rac 
00000010: 65 20 49 64 22 2C 22 54 	e Id","T 
00000018: 65 61 6D 22 2C 22 44 72 	eam","Dr 
00000020: 69 76 65 72 20 23 31 22 	iver #1" 
00000028: 2C 22 43 6F 75 6E 74 72 	,"Countr 
00000030: 79 20 44 31 22 2C 22 44 	y D1","D 
00000038: 72 69 76 65 72 20 23 32 	river #2