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

you can convert your CSV String with iconv. for example:

$csvString = "Möckmühl;in Möckmühl ist die Hölle los\n";
file_put_contents('path/newTest.csv',iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT",$csvString) );