Spreadsheet_Excel_Reader (PHPExcelReader) fails on accent encoding

Question

I'm using Spreadsheet_Excel_Reader for reading Excel file in my PHP app. It works fine until I put some accents in my Excel file, they are not correctly handled : "éçà@" for example. I've seen that encoding can be set through :

$reader->setOutputEncoding($encoding);

But this doesn't seem to change anything.

Answer 1

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 $retstr = ($asciiEncoding) ? $retstr : $this->_encodeUTF16($retstr);

edit this way

 $retstr = ($asciiEncoding) ? utf8_encode($retstr) : $this->_encodeUTF16($retstr);

Answer 2

I used

$data->setOutputEncoding('UTF8');

and it is working fine for me.