What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. input cyrillic characters in the array 2. save the file as UTF-8 3. run it

What is the expected output? What do you see instead? xls file - the text is corrupt

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? php-excel Version 1.0

Please provide any additional information below. Try without utf8_encode(); I guess the strings in the array "should" be UTF-8 and utf8_encode() is not necessary.

Thanks for your input! This was definitely an error I made when first starting out with the library. This library can not solve all the different localization tasks when it comes to different character sets. I have removed the utf8_encode() from the code and added the option to set the global charset yourself in the branch of version 2:

http://code.google.com/p/php-excel/source/browse/#svn/branches/version02

When invoking the library you may set a new parameter in the constructor:

$xls = new Excel_XML('ISO-8859-2');

All headers of the output document will be set accordingly. It'd be great if you could check this with cyrillic charset - this will be difficult to test for me.

The best way, nonetheless, will be to deliver native UTF-8 in the input array ;)

I will address this issue with a new version and/or a patch for version 1.

I have removed the utf8_encode from version 1.1 which is available now in the [http://code.google.com/p/php-excel/downloads/list download section] of the project. Additionally you may set the desired encoding in the constructor of the file. See the attached readme.txt for details.

I still need to validate this with other charsets.