What's the best way to export UTF8 data into Excel?

Question

So we have this web app where we support UTF8 data. Hooray UTF8. And we can export the user-supplied data into CSV no problem - it\'s still in UTF8 at that point. The proble

Answer 1

If you create an XML with utf encoding and save it as a .xls it will open even those two-byte chars:

xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"