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

Since UTF8 encoding doesn't play well with Excel. You can convert the data to another encoding type using iconv().

e.g.

iconv('UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT', $value),