Javascript to csv export encoding issue

Question

I need to export javascript array to excel file and download it I\'m doing it in this code. data is a javascript object array.

var csvContent = \"data:t         


        

Answer 1

somehow found Tab-Separated-CSV with utf-16le encoding with BOM works on WIN/MAC Excel

followed b4stien's answer but make a little difference to archive:

var csvContent = 'éà; ça; 12\nà@€; çï; 13',
    textEncoder = new TextEncoder('utf-16le');
var csvContentEncoded = textEncoder.encode([csvContent]);
var bom = new Uint8Array([0xFF, 0xFE]);
var out = new Uint8Array( bom.byteLength + csvContentEncoded.byteLength );
out.set( bom , 0 );
out.set( csvContentEncoded, bom.byteLength );
var blob = new Blob([out]);
saveAs(blob, 'some-data.csv');

with Linux /usr/bin/file tests:

Little-endian UTF-16 Unicode text, with very long lines, with CRLF line terminators