title: UTF8 character Issue in MySQL and PHPExcel
body: <p>I have a MySQL database with collation latin1_swidish_ci. I am having 2 problems.</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Weird characters like triangles are showing up in my webpage when I echo it. </li>
  <li>When I export the data to Excel File using PHPEXCEL, The characters like é are not being populated in the cell. All the characters after é are being deleted from the string ! </li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Export Script: </p>
  
  <pre><code> header('Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel');
   header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$filename\"");
   header('Cache-Control: max-age=0');
   $objWriter = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($objPHPExcel, 'Excel5');
   $objWriter-&gt;save('php://output');
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>The problems are happening only in the server ! Its working perfectly fine in my Localhost. Please suggest.</strong></p>