Unicode charset UTF-8

First of all: congratulations for this amazing class.

I have a problem concerning the charset used by client-side software (e.g. MS Excel or OpenOffice.org).
I encode my data in UTF-8 format, but when I download and open the generated xls, the charset seems to be ISO-8859-1 (Western Europe / Latin 1).

What I have to do?
Do I have to set some php header? - please note that I use: header ("Content-type: application/x-msexcel;charset=utf-8");
Is it an issue reguarding MS Excel (or OpenOffice)?


Thanks in advance.

I have the same problem. Someone found a solution yet?

I found it myself: Change line 106 of file excelwriter.inc.php to the appropiate charset.

That file doesn't exist! Did anyone find the solution? i tried the pear package but it also fails with UTF8....

Did you try to decode the array?

for($i = 0; $i < count($array); $i++) {
for($j = 0; $j < count($array[$i]); $j++) {
$array[$i][$j] = utf8_decode($array[$i][$j]);
}
}

I have this problem too
do you find the solution?