> 1. First I want to know how to make the actual binary file that is written, > to be encoded as UTF-8. This is my PRIMARY question. I think this part is the key. If the string originated from your text editor, then your text editor needs to be in UTF-8 mode. If you are importing the data from a file or database then you need to be sure that the data is UTF-8 encoded. If you know that the encoding is instead ISO-8859-1 then you can convert it to UTF-8 with the php function utf_encode. fwrite will then write out the bytes that you presented to it. I guess the same applies in reverse when you read the file back in to the application that will view the text. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
