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

Another solution I found was just to encode the result as Windows Code Page 1252 (Windows-1252 or CP1252). This would be done, for example by setting Content-Type appropriately to something like text/csv; charset=Windows-1252 and setting the character encoding of the response stream similarly.