Comments on: Download data as csv using PHP

By: Mwasif

Mwasif — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:43:51 +0000

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By: Mind

Mind — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:32:46 +0000

I solved with this: hope will help some1.

mb_convert_encoding( $s, ‘ISO-8859-1′, ‘UTF-8′);

By: Danish Zahur

Danish Zahur — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:23:20 +0000

If your contents are in UTF-8 format, then no need to convert encoding. Just start your file/output stream with UTF-8 BOM after headers.
echo pack(“CCC”,0xef,0xbb,0xbf);

And header should contain encoding UTF-8
header( “Content-type: application/vnd.ms-excel; charset=UTF-8″ );

It will work like charm because Excel will recognize file charset with BOM bytes.

By: Santhosh

Santhosh — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:42:00 +0000

Yes, the same thing i am trying it out. But itis not working. Characters are unreadable.

It would be great if some body paste the code related to the utf conversion.

By: Ramón

Ramón — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:07:43 +0000

I have the same exact problem (as far as i can see): my application uses a file download wrapper wich uses the readfile() function to output a file.. it outputs it as an UTF8 file.. and i need them to be saved as ANSI.. perhaps you could share your solution more deeply explained.. thanx in advance

By: Klemen

Klemen — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:45:45 +0000

I have found solution.

Charset must be set to windows-1250 & mysql: set names cp1250

By: Klemen

Klemen — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:13:42 +0000

If I use:
$unicode_str_for_Excel = chr(255).chr(254).mb_convert_encoding( $utf8_str, ‘UTF-16LE’, ‘UTF-8′);

I get UCS-2 little endian encoding of a file, not ANSI. Result is better as I see special characters correctly, but now excel doesn’t put values in rows and columns – everything is in one cell.

By: Klemen

Klemen — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:06:29 +0000

I have the same problem. Excel doesn’t read UTF-8 files. Files must be in ANSI format to work correctly.

I don’t know which target encoding should I use to output data?

mb_convert_encoding( $utf8_str, ??????, ‘UTF-8′);

By: Deepak Raikwar

Deepak Raikwar — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:45:09 +0000

Hi Everyone,
Thanks coz i got ur code bye …………

By: Ahmed Hosny

Ahmed Hosny — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:23:03 +0000

sorry this one

$unicode_str_for_Excel = chr(255).chr(254).mb_convert_encoding( $utf8_str, ‘UTF-16LE’, ‘UTF-8′);