note 104287 modified in function.iconv by danbrown

From: Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:18:48 +0000
Subject: note 104287 modified in function.iconv by danbrown
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If you want to export some utf-8 data into csv/tsv that will be readable by excel with correct encoding you must add special non vissable characters at the begining of file <?php $data = "Some utf-8 characters ąćżźćł" header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream"); header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary"); header('Expires: '.gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s').' GMT'); header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename = "Export '.date("Y-m-d").'.tsv"'); header('Pragma: no-cache'); //these characters will make correct encoding to excel echo chr(255).chr(254).iconv("UTF-8", "UTF-16LE//IGNORE", $data); ?> --was-- If you want to export some utf-8 data into csv/tsv that will be readable by excel with correct encoding you must add special non vissable characters at the begining of file <? $data = "Some utf-8 characters ąćżźćł" header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream"); header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary"); header('Expires: '.gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s').' GMT'); header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename = "Export '.date("Y-m-d").'.tsv"'); header('Pragma: no-cache'); //these characters will make correct encoding to excel echo chr(255).chr(254).iconv("UTF-8", "UTF-16LE//IGNORE", $data); ?> http://php.net/manual/en/function.iconv.php

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