How can I output a UTF-8 CSV in PHP that Excel will read properly?

Question

I\'ve got this very simple thing that just outputs some stuff in CSV format, but it\'s got to be UTF-8. I open this file in TextEdit or TextMate or Dreamweaver and it displa

Answer 1

In my case following works very nice to make CSV file with UTF-8 chars displayed correctly in Excel.

$out = fopen('php://output', 'w');
fprintf($out, chr(0xEF).chr(0xBB).chr(0xBF));
fputcsv($out, $some_csv_strings);

The 0xEF 0xBB 0xBF BOM header will let Excel know the correct encoding.