I'm working on a program that is writing a UTF-8 text file. This process works fine. What doesn't work fine is that TextEdit.app (and others) does not recognise it automatically as a UTF-8 text file, ...

A CSV downloaded from Google Sheets via 'File → Download → Comma separated values (.csv)'. When opened in Excel, the headings became unreadable characters like '逡ｪ蜿ｷ'. In this case, the file is not ...

I have an .XLS file containing a bunch of names, some of which have non-standard characters in them (accents over the "o", stuff like that). I would very much like to get this data into a MySQL ...