How to read German characters (äöü߀) in Excel via PHPExcel

- Using PHPExcel we can create excel in php.
- In that excel creation german characters not displayed when given that words directly like " Jörg Blümel "

- For that we need to use,

 - PHPExcel uses UTF-8 internally, so it will render all characters correctly if your html page is set as UTF-8

$value = "Jörg Blümel";

$newValue = iconv("ISO-8859-1", "UTF-8", $value);