New Post: PHPExcel convert XLS to CSV with special characters

Hello,

I'm having a small issue while converting an XLS file containing special characters to CSV file using PHPExcel classes.

As exemple the name "Kévin" gives "Kévin" in the CSV generated file.

Here is my current PHP code using PHPExcel :

$excel_readers = array(
        'Excel5' , 
        'Excel2003XML' , 
        'Excel2007'
        );

        require_once('classes/PHPExcel.php');

        $reader = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createReader('Excel5');
        $reader->setReadDataOnly(true);

        $path = $_FILES['file']['tmp_name'];
        $excel = $reader->load($path);

        $writer = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($excel, 'CSV');
        $writer->save('temp/absences.csv');

        echo 'File saved to csv format';

Any help would me much appreciate.