Html entities like € is not converted to its symbol in CSV conversion

Question

I have used CSV parser from http://code.google.com/p/parsecsv-for-php/, to export my reports to CSV in PHP. I have displayed Sales Total value in €XXXX.XX

Answer 1

According to me Excel has some problems displaying CSV-files with unicode characters.You can try once below :

use fputcsv() with utf-8 handling.

something like below :

$handler = fopen("php://output", "w");

header("Content-Type: text/csv; charset=UTF-8");
fputcsv($handler, $fields, ';', '"');

fclose($handler);

Note php://output is a write-only stream that allows you to write to the output buffer mechanism in the same way as print() and echo().