php fgetcsv - charset encoding problems

Question

Using PHP 5.3 fgetcsv function, I am experiencing some problems due to encoding matters. Note that that file has spanish \"special\" latin characters like graph

Answer 1

This is likely to do with the way excel encodes the file when saving.

Try uploading the .xls file to google docs and downloading as a .csv

Answer 2

Try this:

function convert( $str ) {
    return iconv( "Windows-1252", "UTF-8", $str );
}

public function getRow()
{
    if (($row = fgetcsv($this->_handle, 10000, $this->_delimiter)) !== false) {
        $row = array_map( "convert", $row );
        $this->_line++;
        return $this->_headers ? array_combine($this->_headers, $row) : $row;
    } else {
        return false;
    }
}