php-excel-reader - problem with UTF-8

Question

I\'m using php-excel-reader 2.21 for converting XLS file to CSV. I wrote a simple script to do that, but I have some problems with unicode characters. It does not return val

Answer 1

I hope it's the same problem as I had: In excel_reader2.php on line 1120, replace

$retstr = ($asciiEncoding) ? $retstr : $this->_encodeUTF16($retstr);

with

$retstr = ($asciiEncoding) ? iconv('cp1250', 'utf-8', $retstr) : $this->_encodeUTF16($retstr);

That should fix it, however I suggest you use a different excel reader, such as PHPExcel to avoid problems like these.
Note that you need iconv extension enabled on the server.