I’ve got this very simple thing that just outputs some stuff in CSV format, but it’s got to be UTF-8. I open this file in TextEdit or TextMate or Dreamweaver and it displays UTF-8 characters properly, but if I open it in Excel it’s doing this silly íÄ kind of thing instead. Here’s what I’ve got at the head of my document:
I have a CSS file that looks fine when I open it using gedit, but when it’s read by PHP (to merge all the CSS files into one), this CSS has the following characters prepended to it: 
Using PHP5 (cgi) to output template files from the filesystem and having issues spitting out raw HTML.
I was writing some commented PHP classes and I stumbled upon a problem. My name (for the @author tag) ends up with a ș (which is a UTF-8 character, …and a strange name, I know).
I’ve downloaded an HttpHandler class that concatenates JS files into one file and it keeps appending the  characters at the start of each file it concatenates.
Two questions here. I have a set of files which are usually UTF-8 with BOM. I’d like to convert them (ideally in place) to UTF-8 with no BOM. It seems like codecs.StreamRecoder(stream, encode, decode, Reader, Writer, errors) would handle this. But I don’t really see any good examples on usage. Would this be the best way to handle this?
I’m really confused with the codecs.open function. When I do:
