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What Should I Do If Garbled Characters Are Displayed After SQL Query Results Are Exported to an Excel File for My RDS Instance?

Incorrect encoding may cause garbled characters. The default encoding is UTF-8. You must convert the default encoding to Unicode in the exported Excel file.