Question

I have a SQL Server database extract I’m doing.

At the beginning of my program, I have:

ini_set('mssql.charset','cp1250');

My database calls do not do anything special.

I’m only call the following methods:

mssql_connect, mssql_select_db, mssql_query, mssql_fetch_object, 
mssql_next_result and mssql_close.

When I print the output of my export on screen, all the characters look fine. When I export fputcsv() into a csv file, I get a ton of <92> and <93> characters (this is the way that they look when I use a terminal to read them). When I open the file using Excel, they look like ì, í and î

This is causing major problems. Do you have any ideas?

Answer 1

Thanks but it turns out that the problem isn’t with the encoding so much as it is with the fact that my fputcsv() call actually was not specifying a delimiter. I chose “\t” for the delim and everything worked perfectly.