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

Check the encoding in which you are generating the file, to make excel display the file correctly you must use the system default codepage.

Wich language are you using? if it's .Net you only need to use Encoding.Default while generating the file.