Cannot locally import UTF-8 encoded SQL database on Mac I was importing a confirmed UTF-8 encoded SQL database into Sequel Pro on Mac and got thrown this error halfway through:


  An error occurred when reading the file, as it could not be read in
  the encoding you selected (Autodetect - Unicode (UTF-8)).
  
  Only 1273 queries were executed.


Is this because the database file was originally from a windows machine and it's linebreaks stuffed things up? 

I imagine I will get this error even if I tried to send the same database over file transfer to a server so how can I fix it's encoding?

-- MySQL dump 10.13  Distrib 5.5.40-36.1, for Linux (x86_64)
--
-- Host: localhost    Database: *****
-- ------------------------------------------------------
-- Server version   5.5.40-36.1-log

/*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@@CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */;
/*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=@@CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS */;
/*!40101 SET @OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION=@@COLLATION_CONNECTION */;
/*!40101 SET NAMES utf8 */;
/*!40103 SET @OLD_TIME_ZONE=@@TIME_ZONE */;
/*!40103 SET TIME_ZONE='+00:00' */;
/*!40014 SET @OLD_UNIQUE_CHECKS=@@UNIQUE_CHECKS, UNIQUE_CHECKS=0 */;
/*!40014 SET @OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@@FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS, FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0 */;
/*!40101 SET @OLD_SQL_MODE=@@SQL_MODE, SQL_MODE='NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO' */;
/*!40111 SET @OLD_SQL_NOTES=@@SQL_NOTES, SQL_NOTES=0 */;

--
-- Table structure for table `******`
--
Based on this blog post 

http://ilikekillnerds.com/2014/08/fixing-sequel-pro-sql-encoding-error-for-imported-sql-files/

When importing your database dump, you need to select Western (Mac OS Roman) as the encoding format for the file to import without issue.