I'm exporting a report from Oracle service cloud database to Excel. Everything is working as expected but when there is a bullet points it show as a weird Characters. Filling the report is being done by a form which insert into the database and then I'm exporting this report to Excel using PHPExcel and Excel5.php class. When I use the HTML.php class I see the bullet point with no problem but then I lose some of Excel formatting. Below is my code
header('Content-Type: application/xls');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment;filename="' . $fileName . '.xls"');
header('Cache-Control: max-age=0');
header('Cache-Control: max-age=1');
header ('Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT');
header ('Last-Modified: '.gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s').' GMT');
header ('Cache-Control: cache, must-revalidate'); // HTTP/1.1
header ('Pragma: public'); // HTTP/1.0
$objWriter = \PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($objPHPExcel, 'Excel5');
$objWriter->save('php://output');
I did research this issue and some advice to make all data type as a string but that did not make any changes. $objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setCellValueExplicit('A1','0987', PHPExcel_Cell_DataType::TYPE_STRING);
Used the UTF-8 still did not change anything.
Can you please help?