How can I get this nominally UTF-8 file into MySQL successfully? For what it's worth, if I open the UTF-8 file in Notepad or re-open it in Excel, it looks fine.<BR><BR>Thanks for any help! ••• ...

Use the Excel file as an ODBC data source (connection string info here), and your MySQL database as the destination (using their ODBC connector). What OS is your process running on?