What is the difference between CSV and UTF-8 in Excel?

Is Excel CSV UTF-8?

UTF-8 Encoding in Microsoft Excel (Windows) Click File in the top-left corner of your screen. Click the drop-down menu next to File format. Select CSV UTF-8 (Comma delimited) (. csv) from the drop-down menu.

Are CSV files UTF-8?

Google Spreadsheet correctly exports UTF-8 encoded CSV files by default. From the File menu, choose Download As and select Comma-separated values.

What encoding does Excel use for 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. That will get Microsoft software to recognize it as UTF-8.

Does Excel use UTF-8 encoding?

Excel 2011 and beyond do not have options to encode UTF files. Depending on your version of Excel, you may be able to encode your file to UTF-8 during the Save As process. This will depend on the your Excel version as well as whether you are using a Mac or PC.