fwrite() seems to destroy Special Characters

[Dennis Lahay <evild@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm having trouble with writing special charcaters to a text file. The 
characters are your run-of-the-mill accented characters. Passing them 
back and forth in the database and displaying them on screen is NOT a 
problem.

code snippet:
$row = mysql_fetch_array($query_result, MYSQL_ASSOC);
foreach ($exportOrder as $key => $value) { // makes tab-delimited file 
from array
    if (array_key_exists($key, $row)) {
        $bigString .= $row[$key] . "\t";
    } else {
        $bigString .= "\t";
    }
}
print $bigString;
$filename = "../../../Volumes/FILEJOB/DB Art IN/" . 
$row['currentSVVersion'];
if (!$file = fopen($filename, 'w+')) {
    print "Cannot open file ($filename)";
    exit;
}
fwrite($file, $bigString);
fclose($file);

I print the string immediately before I write the file. It looks like 
this (i hope this formats correctly for the list):
INGRÉDIENTS : VINAIGRE, EAU, GRAINES DE MOUTARDE, SEL, CURCUMA, ÉPICES 
À Â Æ Ç È É Ê Ë Î Ï Ô Û Ü Œ

I write the file, open it up in BBEdit (or your favorite text editor) 
and it looks like this:
INGR…DIENTS : VINAIGRE, EAU, GRAINES DE MOUTARDE, SEL, CURCUMA, …PICES 
¿ ¬ ? « » …   À †Œ œ ‘ € ‹ å

Why would I lose those special characters when writing to a text file? 
How can I avoid this? The text file will be opened offline, so using 
É and other character entities won't work.

I've tried:
 - $file = fopen($filename, 'w+b'); adding binary flag doesn't affect 
anything
 - Iooking at php.ini; nothing stood out

Any suggestions? [Mac OSX 10.3.6 : PHP 4.3.2 : MySQL 4.0.18 : Apache 
1.3.29]

D

 
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