What is the default character set used when loading CSV files into Snowflake?

The correct answer is A. UTF-8. Snowflake uses UTF-8 as the default character encoding when loading CSV (and other delimited) files via COPY INTO or the Snowflake web interface. UTF-8 is the most widely used Unicode encoding and supports virtually all characters across all languages. If your source file uses…

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AUTF-8
BUTF-16
CISO S859-1
DANSI_X3.A

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Explanation

Snowflake uses UTF-8 as the default character encoding when loading CSV (and other delimited) files via COPY INTO or the Snowflake web interface. UTF-8 is the most widely used Unicode encoding and supports virtually all characters across all languages. If your source file uses a different encoding (such as UTF-16 or Latin-1/ISO-8859-1), you must explicitly specify it in the FILE FORMAT definition using the ENCODING parameter. Failing to specify the correct encoding when the file differs from UTF-8 can cause data corruption or load errors.

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