Accented characters not correctly imported with BULK INSERT

Question

I am importing a source CSV file, I don\'t know the source encoding and I can only see either � (ANSI encoding) or � (UTF8-without-BOM encoding)

Answer 1

In my case I can fix the encoding problem with the CODEPAGE option:

BULK
INSERT #CSV
FROM 'D:\XY\xy.csv'
WITH
(
   CODEPAGE = 'ACP',
   DATAFILETYPE ='char',
   FIELDTERMINATOR = ',',
   ROWTERMINATOR = '\n',
   FIRSTROW = 2
)

Possible values: CODEPAGE = { 'ACP' | 'OEM' | 'RAW' | 'code_page' } ]

You can find more information about the option here: BULK INSERT