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Importing from CSV some text characters are replaced by `?`

See original GitHub issue

System information:

Windows 10 / 2021 May Update
DBeaver version - 21.1.3

Connection specification:

Database name and version
Driver name
Do you use tunnels or proxies (SSH, SOCKS, etc)? Nope it’s locally

Describe the problem you’re observing:

I am importing a csv to database and some German letters it shows them like this ( they contain a letter like ? )

But actually on the csv they are okay

Steps to reproduce, if exist:

Import the following csv ( after you unzip the attached file ) on a mysql database with a table with following columns

123.zip

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 2 years ago
Comments:9 (5 by maintainers)

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ShadelessFoxcommented, Jul 28, 2021

Just a note: in case of Notepad++, you need to use <kbd>Convert to UTF-8</kbd> option rather than <kbd>UTF-8</kbd>:

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ShadelessFoxcommented, Jul 28, 2021

Actually, I missed the attachment, my bad.

I was able to reproduce your issue and found several workarounds:

Your file is encoded in extended ASCII, also known as latin1. You can specify latin1 as encoding in CSV importer.
You can convert file encoding to UTF-8.

Using these approaches, you don’t have to edit dbeaver.ini file.