title: Pandas DataFrame's accented characters appearing garbled in Excel
body: <p>With:</p>
  
  <pre><code># -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>at the top of my .ipynb, Jupyter is now displaying accented characters correctly.</p>
  
  <p>When I export to csv (with <code>.to_csv()</code>) a <code>pandas</code> data frame containing accented characters:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/kRUtD.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/kRUtD.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>... the characters do not render properly when the csv is opened in Excel. </p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/w8JeG.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/w8JeG.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>This is the case whether I set the <code>encoding='utf-8'</code> or not. Is pandas/python doing all that it can here, and this is an Excel issue? Or can something be done before the export to csv?</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Python: 2.7.10</li>
  <li>Pandas: 0.17.1</li>
  <li>Excel: Excel for Mac 2011</li>
  </ul>