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

I'm on Mac, in my case I just had to specify the separator with "sep=;\n" and encode the file in UTF-16LE like this:

$data = "sep=;\n" .mb_convert_encoding($data, 'UTF-16LE', 'UTF-8');