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

As I investigated and I found that UTF-8 is not working well on MAC and Windows so I tried with Windows-1252 , it supports well on both of them but you must select type of encoding on ubuntu. Here is my code$valueToWrite = mb_convert_encoding($value, 'Windows-1252');

$response->headers->set('Content-Type', $mime . '; charset=Windows-1252');
    $response->headers->set('Pragma', 'public');
    $response->headers->set('Content-Endcoding','Windows-1252');
    $response->headers->set('Cache-Control', 'maxage=1');
    $response->headers->set('Content-Disposition', $dispositionHeader);
    echo "\xEF\xBB\xBF"; // UTF-8 BOM