Cake PHP Xls Helper UTF 8用于SQL Server

Question

I am trying to export sql server data into .xls file using cake php. Xls Helper works fine but when it comes to special (greek) characters I don't get expected result.

I've already tried the following:

1. Adding in database.php 'encoding' => PDO::SQLSRV_ENCODING_UTF8
2. Adding in Xls Helper Class header("Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel; charset=UTF-8");
3. Adding in Xls Helper Class echo "\\xEF\\xBB\\xBF"; // UTF-8 BOM (3rd action totally ruins my format BUT I can see the special characters)

The afformationed trials have not lead me to the solution, some help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

这段代码似乎可以完成这项工作：

$xls->writeLabel($rowNumber, $columnNumber, mb_convert_encoding($phpArray['ModelName']  ['fieldName'], 'ISO-8859-7'));