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

I just tried these headers and got Excel 2013 on a Windows 7 PC to import the CSV file with special characters correctly. The Byte Order Mark (BOM) was the final key that made it work.

    header('Content-Encoding: UTF-8');
    header('Content-type: text/csv; charset=UTF-8');
    header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=filename.csv");
    header("Pragma: public");
    header("Expires: 0");
    echo "\xEF\xBB\xBF"; // UTF-8 BOM