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Posted by Rasmus Lerdorf on 04/23/05 07:54
Jon M. wrote:
> "Richard Lynch" <ceo@l-i-e.com> wrote in message
> news:4029.67.184.124.249.1114151797.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com...
>
>>On Thu, April 21, 2005 5:07 pm, Jon M. said:
>>
>>>I am trying to have a file that I generated with PHP saved as UTF-8
>>>without
>>>the BOM (Byte Order Mark). Does PHP do anything like this? I am a
>>>beginner
>>>with PHP, but very technically experienced otherwise. I'm talking about
>>>the
>>>FILE encoding here -just to be clear.
>>>
>>>e.g. fopen("what_ever_file", "a+") now I want PHP save the file itself
>>>with
>>>UTF-8, NOT system default.
>>>
>>>I have searched for hours to find an answer, but have not found any info
>>>on
>>>the subject.
>>>
>>>Does PHP have any ability to create a text file saved in UTF-8
>>>encoding???
>>
>>Maybe I'm just being dumb, but I think if you UTF-8 encode your data, and
>>http://php.net/fwrite it, you're gonna get what you want...
>>
>>Dunno about the Byte-Order-Mark part, but I guess you could strip it out
>>of the UTF-8 encoded data before writing, if you wanted to.
>>
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>
>
>
> That was the first thing I tried, and it doesn't seem to work (it always
> saves in windows default encoding). Unless I missing something about what
> you can do with fwrite. Did you actually test that before you replied, and
> found that it would? If so, how? The Byte Order Mark is a part of the binary
> file that is written, how would one go about stripping it out??
>
> BTW, note to PHP developers: If "fwrite" had a "encoding" parameter, e.g.
> "UTF-8", that would be REALLY handy.
Strings in PHP are binary-safe and character-encoding neutral. fwrite
doesn't have a clue what it is writing, it just writes what is in memory.
I'd question why you would want to strip the BOM. Any modern system
deals with the byte-order-mark correctly. But you can simply strip it
manually if it is present in the first 2 bytes before your fwrite if you
really need to get rid of it.
-Rasmus
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