Character encoding issue exporting rails data to CSV

Question

I\'m exporting data to a CSV file in rails and in some of my fields, I\'m getting character encoding issues like this when I open in Excel:

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Answer 1

The answers above did not work for me on Mac Excel: Using iso-8859-1 would require I replace/remove weird characters, which is not a good enough solution for me, and using BOM with UTF8 worked under Windows but not under Mac Excel.

What worked for me is the WINDOWS-1252 encoding as suggested by https://stackoverflow.com/a/20194266/226255

def self.to_csv(options = {})
  (CSV.generate(options) do |csv|
    csv << self.headers

    all.each do |e|
      csv << e.values
    end
   end).encode('WINDOWS-1252', :undef => :replace, :replace => '')
end