How can I output a UTF-8 CSV in PHP that Excel will read properly?

Question

I\'ve got this very simple thing that just outputs some stuff in CSV format, but it\'s got to be UTF-8. I open this file in TextEdit or TextMate or Dreamweaver and it displa

Answer 1

Converting already utf-8 encoded text by using mb_convert_encoding is not needed. Just add three characters in front of the original content:

$newContent = chr(239) . chr(187) . chr(191) . $originalContent

For me this resolved the problem of special characters in csv files.