Loading utf-8 encoded text into MySQL table

Question

I have a large CSV file that I am going to load it into a MySQL table. However, these data are encoded into utf-8 format, because they include some non-english characters. I

Answer 1

You should send

init_command = 'SET NAMES UTF8'
use_unicode = True
charset = 'utf8'

when doing MySQLdb.connect() e.g.

dbconfig = {}
dbconfig['host']            = 'localhost'
dbconfig['user']            = ''
dbconfig['passwd']          = ''
dbconfig['db']              = ''
dbconfig['init_command']    = 'SET NAMES UTF8'
dbconfig['use_unicode']     = True
dbconfig['charset']         = 'utf8'

conn = MySQLdb.connect(**dbconfig)

edit: ah, sorry, I see you've added that you're using "LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE" -- this wasn't clear from your initial question :)