You can change the default Character Encoding in Notepad from UTF-8 to ANSI, UTF-16 LE, UTF-16 BE, UTF-8 BOM. using Registry Editor.

I am experiencing difficulties with encoding Chinese characters using UTF-16 LE and UTF-16 BE without a TBL (table) file. Specifically, when I attempt to import data following UTF-8 encoding rules, it ...

Source code for the Java Development Kit (JDK) would be redone in UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation Format) to facilitate better-defined encoding, under a plan afoot in the OpenJDK Java community.

You can try to compare the dump of the table to a file and import it into a PG table versus a direct import to the PG table to see if this is just a warning or a corruption.

Therefore, the chances of character mismapping are less with the Unicode (UTF-8) encoding standard. However, in a few cases, you may see unreadable text in Ubicode (UTF-8) encoding standard.

A BOM is Unicode character that some text editors and program add to the beginning of a file to indicate that the contents use Unicode encoding. This is an optional character, though, and some ...