Microsoft Excel mangles Diacritics in .csv files?

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I am programmatically exporting data (using PHP 5.2) into a .csv test file.
Example data: Numéro 1 (note the accented e).
The data is utf-8 (no prepended BOM).

When I open this file in MS Excel is displays as Numéro 1.

I am able to open this in a text editor (UltraEdit) which displays it correctly. UE reports the character is decimal 233.

How can I export text data in a .csv file so that MS Excel will correctly render it, preferably without forcing the use of the import wizard, or non-default wizard settings?

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