ASP.NET Excel export encoding problem

Question

I\'m doing some Excel Exports on the ASP.NET Site. Everything works except of the Encoding. When I open it in Excel, it looks like this:

Eingabe Koste

Answer 1

Have you tried setting the encoding in a meta tag in the HTML?

Excel won't see the response headers, so it won't know what the Response.Encoding is. The meta tag allows it to find out.