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

Have you tried to use € for € , instead of € ?

Answer 2

You would need to use html_entity_decode() on the strings before writing them to file, which will find all html entities and replace them with their actual symbol.

html_special_chars() and html_special_chars_decode() only works on a few html entities, like > and <, while htmlentities() and html_entity_decode() works on all of them.

Alternatively, you could just do a string replace (str_replace() or preg_replace() or whatever) for € to replace with €.

Then Try:

str_replace('€','€',$valuebeingexported);

Answer 3

Try this

//add BOM to fix UTF-8 in Excel
fputs($fp, $bom =( chr(0xEF) . chr(0xBB) . chr(0xBF) ));
fputcsv($handler, $fields, ';', '"');

Answer 4

This was the only thing that cleanly fixed it for me

 html_entity_decode($text, ENT_QUOTES, 'utf-8')

Answer 5

I don't know much in CSV files, but you should try these two things:

1. Put the euro symbol directly.

   or

2. Look for the CSV file encoding.

Answer 6

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().