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I’m exporting an excel file into a CSV and then uploading to a MySQL database, but every entry that has a ™ (trademark) turns into a small a (ª).
The database is set to utf8_unicode_ci, as is each row. Any ideas why this is happening still?
There’s an easier way to do the conversion. If you use Windows, you can download a text editor like Notepad++ for free, and Notepad++ can encode or convert a text file into UTF-8 (on the menu bar, go to Encoding, switch to whichever one you want).
The same is also possible with a Mac editor like TextMate. File > Re-Open With Encoding.
Excel does indeed automatically encode a file generated from Excel in the Windows format. However, if it is used to open a file that uses a different encoding, it should preserve that encoding; it won’t convert UTF-8 encoded files into Windows-1252.