Amazon Redshift will no longer support the creation of new Python UDFs starting Patch 198.
Existing Python UDFs will continue to function until June 30, 2026. For more information, see the
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Loading multibyte data from Amazon S3
If your data includes non-ASCII multibyte characters (such as Chinese or Cyrillic characters), you must load the data to VARCHAR columns. The VARCHAR data type supports four-byte UTF-8 characters, but the CHAR data type only accepts single-byte ASCII characters. You can't load five-byte or longer characters into Amazon Redshift tables. For more information, see Multibyte characters.