[snip] I want to know, what charset is applied to every file when is created with the fopen function and how can I to manage the charset when I use the fopen function? For example: If i want to create an ISO-8859-2 file, how can I to force, the fopen function to create it? [/snip] This may start to shed some light http://us2.php.net/mbstring -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php