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What character encoding does fwrite use?

What character encoding does fwrite use by default and how can this be controlled?
<?php
   $data = "Hello. Buenos días. Ça Va. Yá'át'ééh.";
   $fp = fopen($file, 'w');
   fwrite($fp, $data);
   fclose($fp);
?>

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alain34, your idea is to do this:

fwrite($fh,utf8_encode($myString));

The problem is that the string is ALREADY in UTF-8 encoding.  

And to double encode this could cause some problems!
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/24146810/using-utf8-encode-on-text-that-is-already-encoded.html

So I can't leave it as it is because of the UTF-8 fwrite bug you noted.  And I can't convert it because it would get scrambled!  Either way the text gets damaged!