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Browse All TopicsI need to create a file, which should contain special Hungarian
characters (such as á, é ó) but the file is created UTF-8
encoded when perforing fwrite. I import this file to a ISO-8859-2
encoded html
but currently the page appears incorrectly due to the character
set mismatch.
Is there a way I can set encoding for php fwrite so that my file is
save ISO-8859-2 encoded?
$fhandle = fopen( 'something.txt', 'w');
fwrite( $fhandle, 'special Hungarian characters: áéó');
fclose( $fhandle );
Thank you,
Levente
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by: jayrodPosted on 2003-10-11 at 06:16:16ID: 9532576
http://www.phpbuilder.com/ manual/fun ction.utf8 -decode.ph p
I believe you can decode it while doing the fwrite
fwrite( $fhandle, utf8_decode('special Hungarian characters: áéó'));