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technical Aug 22, 2026 · 10 min

CSV Garbled in Excel? Fix It With a UTF-8 BOM (2026)

Your CSV opens as mojibake in Excel because the file declares no encoding. Here is why it happens, how a UTF-8 BOM fixes it, and when the BOM backfires.