Enable binary mode while restoring a Database from an SQL dump

Question

I am extremely new to MySQL and am running it on Windows. I am trying to restore a Database from a dumpfile in MySQL, but I get the following error:

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Answer 1

Have you tried opening in notepad++ (or another editor) and converting/saving us to UTF-8?

See: notepad++ converting ansi encoded file to utf-8

Another option may be to use textwrangle to open and save the file as UTF-8: http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/