I am unable to load any CSV file into MySQL. Using the Table Data Import Wizard, this error pops up every time I get to the 'Configure Import Settings' step:
"Unhandled exception: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xef in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)"
... even though the CSV is encoded as UTF-8 and that seems to be the default encoding setting for MySQL Workbench. Granted, I am not very skilled with computers, I have only a few weeks' exposure to MySQL. This has not always happened to me. I had no issues with this a couple of months ago while I was in a database management course.
But, I think this is where my problem lies: at one point I tried to uninstall MySQL Workbench and Community Server and re-installed, and ever since, this error happens every time I try to load data. I am even using a very basic test file that still won't load (all column types are set to 'Text' in Excel and saved as UTF-8 CSV:
I am using MySQL 8.0.28 on MacOS 11.5.2 (Big Sur)