Microsoft Excel mangles Diacritics in .csv files?

Question

I am programmatically exporting data (using PHP 5.2) into a .csv test file.
Example data: Numéro 1 (note the accented e). The data is utf-8 (

Answer 1

Writing a BOM to the output CSV file actually did work for me in Django:

def handlePersoonListExport(request):
    # Retrieve a query_set
    ...

    template = loader.get_template("export.csv")
    context = Context({
        'data': query_set,
    })

    response = HttpResponse()
    response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename=export.csv'
    response['Content-Type'] = 'text/csv; charset=utf-8'
    response.write("\xEF\xBB\xBF")
    response.write(template.render(context))

    return response

For more info http://crashcoursing.blogspot.com/2011/05/exporting-csv-with-special-characters.html Thanks guys!