UTF8 file not detected (read as ANSI)

Hello, i have an 8mb sql file that contains utf8 data but only after half.

According to this release HeidiSQL reads only the first 100k to determine if it's a (BOM-less) utf8 file.

Is there a way to force HeidiSQL to treat all files as UF8 ? or per import file?

Thanks!

No, not currently. Files are only auto detected.

so the only solution would be to insert an UTF8 char at the beginning of the file ...

YesThe issue request #2025 is surely legitime.

Encoding is now selectable when you open a SQL file.