Excel csv export into a php file with fgetcsv

Question

I\'m using excel 2010 professional plus to create an excel file. Later on I\'m trying to export it as a UTF-8 .csv file. I do this by saving it as CSV (symbol separated....

Answer 1

I don't know why Excel is generating a ANSI file instead of UTF-8 (as you can see in Notepad++), but if this is the case, you can convert the file using iconv:

iconv --from-code=ISO-8859-1 --to-code=UTF-8 my_csv_file.csv > my_csv_file_utf8.csv