Big Query job fails with “Bad character (ASCII 0) encountered.”

Question

I have a job that is failing with the error

Line:14222274 / Field:1, Bad character (ASCII 0) encountered. Rest of file not processed.

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Answer 1

When you compress what utility did you use?.

I saw this issue when i compressed my csv file in ZIP format ( in windows) . Google BigQuery seems to accept only gzip format.

Make sure to compress your CSV using gzip. If you are in windows 7-zip is a great utility which allows you to compress in gzip.

In Unix gzip is standard.