Use this first to detect what coding the variable is using, this should be UTF-8
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echo mb_detect_encoding($pound); |
If you have problems with Excel showing £ then you can try adding this second line to your code. It worked for me…
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$fp = fopen('dataz.csv', 'w'); fwrite($fp, "\xEF\xBB\xBF"); |
another that worked was : –
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$costsum = "\243".$costsum; |
