What is “ANSI as UTF-8” and how can I make fputcsv() generate UTF-8 w/BOM?

Question

I made a PHP script that generates CSV files that were previously generated by another process. And then, the CSV files have to be imported by yet another process.

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Answer 1

Try changing your PHP script to UTF-8 too. Sometimes it is necessary (despite it can be bypassed) to have the script in the same char encoding of the data.

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