I have created a simple PHP script as a test. I want to have PHP save a csv from some data. This script works, but when I open it in Excel the special characters are gibberish.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Character Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<ul>
<?php
$spanishDept = array('Swimwear'=>'Trajes de baῆo','Boys Swimwear'=>'Trajes de baῆo','Girls Swimwear'=>'Trajes de baῆo','Kids Shoes'=>'Zapatos de niῆos',"Scarves"=>'Paῆoletas','Children\'s'=>'Niῆos','Coffee Mugs'=>'Tasas para café');
$list = '"Item","Spanish"'."";
foreach($spanishDept AS $english=>$spanish) {
echo '<li>'.$english.': '.$spanish.'</li>';
$list .= '"'.$english.'","'.$spanish."\"";
}
$fp = fopen('theEXCELlist.csv',"w+");
fwrite($fp,$list,strlen($list)+100);
?>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
I can open it in NotePad++ or Dreamweaver and all is fine, but in Excel no good
