Export mysql table as csv for msexcel

[giunz]

Hello everyone.

I want to export the data of a table as csv.The problem is that the table contains greek characters and when I try to export them with php in a csv file, the output file displays the greek chars as ? even in the notepad.The webpage charset is set to utf8,the same as the db's (utf8_bin).

 

The sql export of the table i need to export in csv this one:

-- phpMyAdmin SQL Dump

-- version 3.1.1

-- http://www.phpmyadmin.net

--

-- Host: localhost

-- Generation Time: May 25, 2009 at 11:17 AM

-- Server version: 5.1.30

-- PHP Version: 5.2.8

 

SET SQL_MODE="NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO";

 

 

/*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@@CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */;

/*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=@@CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS */;

/*!40101 SET @OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION=@@COLLATION_CONNECTION */;

/*!40101 SET NAMES utf8 */;

 

--

-- Database: `unipi`

--

 

-- --------------------------------------------------------

 

--

-- Table structure for table `contact`

--

 

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `contact` (

  `contactId` bigint(255) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,

  `contactName` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_bin NOT NULL,

  `contactSurname` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_bin NOT NULL,

  `contactPhone` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_bin NOT NULL,

  `contactEmail` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_bin NOT NULL,

  `contactTitle` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_bin NOT NULL,

  `contactOrgId` bigint(255) NOT NULL,

  PRIMARY KEY (`contactId`)

) ENGINE=MyISAM  DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_bin ROW_FORMAT=DYNAMIC AUTO_INCREMENT=4 ;

 

--

-- Dumping data for table `contact`

--

 

INSERT INTO `contact` (`contactId`, `contactName`, `contactSurname`, `contactPhone`, `contactEmail`, `contactTitle`, `contactOrgId`) VALUES

(1, 'Σοφοκλης', 'Σοφοκλεους', '210666666', '[email protected]', 'Κος', 1),

(2, 'Νικος', 'Νικολαου', '2106666666', '[email protected]', 'Κος', 2),

(3, 'Δειγμας', 'Παρασκευάς', '2109999999', '[email protected]', 'Mr', 3);

 

I have also added the php which has the export code similar to :  http://www.phpsimple.net/tutorials/mysql_to_csv/

 

Thank you

 

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header("Content-type: application/csv;chartset=utf-8");

 

chartset ?

[giunz]

Fixed that but the problem remains.

Thank you

[giunz]

Can't anyone please help?I keep searching but I can not find a solution

[fenway]

A whole lot of things need to be set to UTF-8 correctly... php, mysql, and whatever editor you're using.

[michael624]

the data is in 2byte format for special characters. notepad reads one byte characters, unless you file-saveas and click encding type as utf8. Have you tried putting it into excel and seeing what happens? I think when you save the csv file as UTF8 the headers in the file will be recoognized by excel then it will work.