What is the default UTF-8 encoding for Excel?

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For Value data, enter 65001 to set your default to UTF-8. For some other encoding, use the code page identifier, which you can find in the Text Import Wizard in Excel or in this list. 6 мая 2015 г.

How do I set Excel to default to UTF-8?

Click Tools, then select Web options. Go to the Encoding tab. In the dropdown for Save this document as: choose Unicode (UTF-8). Click Ok.

What is the default encoding in Excel?

From memory, Excel uses the machine-specific ANSI encoding. So this would be Windows-1252 for a EN-US installation, 1251 for Russian, etc.

What is the default encoding for Excel CSV?

Excel Read csv, set UTF-8 as default for all csv files. Also, you can include the UTF-8 BOM (0xEF,0xBB,0xBF) at the beginning of the file.

What encoding is Excel XLSX?

XLSX seems to be XML by definition, but the encoding is not as nailed down. UTF-8 simply seems to be the default convention.

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