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I had a trouble exporting UTF-8 data to Excel, but now it’s ok, because I’ve found this:
Microsoft Excel mangles Diacritics in .csv files?
Look at this line:
echo chr(255) . chr(254) . mb_convert_encoding($csv, 'UTF-16LE', 'UTF-8');
When I remove chr(255) . chr(254) at the beginning the Excel can’t display UTF-8 data normally, so can’t the browser.
It’s not a problem of course, I would just like to know, why those chr(255) and chr(254) are essential.
It seems, that Excel requires the Byte Order Mark (BOM). The BOM is always at the beginning of a file and either
FFFEorFEFF. It describes in which order the separate bytes of a multibyte-character appears (lets say “forward” or “backward”). Usually its strongly recommended to omit it, but it seems, that excel uses it to determine the file encoding.