Title: UTF-8 encoding error
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# UTF-8 encoding error

 *  Resolved [norganics](https://wordpress.org/support/users/norganics/)
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 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/utf-8-encoding-error/)
 * I’ve imported csv data for a couple of tables already and had no problems but
   data for one table generated an error “Must be UTF-8 encoding.” I did everything
   the same. Perhaps the characters in the data changed something. I tried the ms-
   dos version of csv and data imported successfully but changed my dashes (used
   to note ranges) to question marks. Any suggestions?
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 *  Thread Starter [norganics](https://wordpress.org/support/users/norganics/)
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 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/utf-8-encoding-error/#post-7265044)
 * Figured it out.

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