SSIS – import csv with UTF-8 encoding to avoid weird characters

/ michaelchu28

Possibly save 1 hour of your time: After you import a csv data file into your SQL Server database, you realize some data has funny characters.

That is because your csv file is probably encoded in ANSI. Make sure your original file is in UTF-8 encoding and ensure all characters appear as normal.

You can fix this in notepad as follows. I change the xA0 to a space and save as encode in UTF-8.

encode utf-8

Book: Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Integration Services

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