Problems with character encoding

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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-7; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Hello list,
I know that what I'm about to ask does not concern databases
exclusively but please guys help. I am retrieving all the records from a
mysql (myisam) table using PDO and I am trying to write it to an
spreadsheet using php. Whenever I use English while writing into the
spreadsheet everything works smoothly but when I use greek retrieved
from the database nothing seems to do the job. I have used
utf8_encode/utf8_encode, iconv and I have just compiled multi-byte
encoding into php (mbstring) and used mb_convert_encoding() to convert
the encoding but it still doesn't do the trick for me. Does anybody have
previous experience concerning charset encoding in order to help me.

Thanks in advance.

PS: I am writing in sreadsheet format using Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer
pear module*
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Thodoris


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