While importing mysqldump file ERROR 1064 (42000) near ' ■/ ' at line 1

It seems that the input file (mysqldumpfile.sql) was created in UTF-8 encoding so these first 3 bytes "at line 1" invisible to you in the .SQL file is the byte order mark (BOM) sequence

So try to change default character set to UTF-8

mysql --user=root --password=root --default_character_set utf8 < mysqldumpfile.sql

Finally I got a solution

We need two options

• --default-character-set=utf8: This insures UTF8 is used for each field
• --result-file=file.sql: This option prevents the dump data from passing through the Operating System which likely does not use UTF8. Instead it passes the dump data directly to the file specified.

Using these new options your dump command would look something like this:

mysqldump -u root -p --default-character-set=utf8 --result-file=database1.backup.sql database1

While Importing you can optionally use:

mysql --user=root --password=root --default_character_set utf8 < database1.backup.sql

Source:http://nathan.rambeck.org/blog/1-preventing-encoding-issues-mysqldump