Laravel-excel: HELP! Special Characters like ñ will convert a word into number 0 on import

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Versions

• PHP version: 7.2
• Laravel version: 5.8
• Package version: ^3.1

Description

I have a CSV file with some rows that has text/words that contain a special character like ñ, what happened is that when I tried to import the file the words with characters above or alike will be converted to 0. Not sure if it is related to encoding, I found some solutions in the StackOverflow but none of them seem to work.

Additional Information

I am using the ToModel
use Maatwebsite\Excel\Concerns\ToModel;

To reproduce this, just try to put a special character in one of the cell of your CSV, then import it like:
Excel::import(new CsvImport, request()->file('file'));

The resulting inserted data that has a special character will be stored as 0