void Worksheet::setInputEncoding (
string $encoding
)
It allows writing for different charsets by setting the worksheet's "current" charset. It has been tested for UTF-8, ISO-8859-7. It requires iconv for any charset other than UTF-16LE.
string $encoding -
The encoding. It suports all encodings supported by php's iconv()
function.
This function can not be called statically.
Using setInputEncoding()
<?php
require_once 'Spreadsheet/Excel/Writer.php';
$workbook = new Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer('test.xls');
$workbook->setVersion(8);
$worksheet =& $workbook->addWorksheet('International worksheet');
$russian = "\xD0\xBF\xD0\xBE\xD0\xBA\xD0\xB0";
$greek = "\342\345\353\355\341";
$worksheet->setInputEncoding('ISO-8859-7');
$worksheet->write(0, 0, $greek);
$worksheet->setInputEncoding('utf-8');
$worksheet->write(1, 0, $russian);
$workbook->close();
?>