non-latin characters exported in utf8 formatted csv files are not recognized by M$ Excel 2007, this is because Excel 2007 doesn't automatically add a BOM into the header of the file when opening it. What is BOM? Byte Order Mark => http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte-order_mark How to solve this problem? VERY SIMPLE! During Export: echo chr(239).chr(187).chr(191);  write this line before you echo the file content and that's it.   During Import: mb_convert_encoding($str,"UTF-8","EUC-C
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