How To Begin With A BOM When Using The PhoneGap FileWriter

I try to write a *.csv file with the PhoneGap FileWriter. It works fine and the output is correct formated in UTF-8. The problem is that some reader like Excel expect a BOM (byte-o

Solution 1:

Just start your output with

writer.write("\xEF\xBB\xBF");

before you append your csv content.

Solution 2:

I start with

writer.write("\uFEFF");

It's documented here: http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/

It works!