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Spreadsheet Excel Writer is a handy tool to generate MS Excel files with php. But it has some trouble handling utf-8 sources. Luckily Research e-Labs describes a simple solution:

After recently working on an application to generate Microsoft Excel documents using a PHP script, I ran into trouble with the PEAR package “Spreadsheet Excel Writer” which didn’t correctly display UTF-8 characters (Māori macrons in this case). Here is a fix!

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