Html entities like € is not converted to its symbol in CSV conversion

Question

I have used CSV parser from http://code.google.com/p/parsecsv-for-php/, to export my reports to CSV in PHP. I have displayed Sales Total value in €XXXX.XX

Answer 1

Try this

//add BOM to fix UTF-8 in Excel
fputs($fp, $bom =( chr(0xEF) . chr(0xBB) . chr(0xBF) ));
fputcsv($handler, $fields, ';', '"');