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Gavin · Jan 27, 2008, 08:42 PM

hi, using PHP on a mac webserver

I need to write a file to disk in windows encoding ISO-8859-1 OR UTF 8

It is a CSV file for importing into a windows app. The app chokes on it and I've determined that the Mac server is writing the file in Mac Roman. The app needs ISO-8859-1, and can maybe do UTF8.

My problem is I can't seem to get php to convert the encoding.

I've tried all of these but it always comes out as Mac Roman according to both SubEthaEdit and Text Wrangler.

Code:
$fi['content'] = utf8_encode($fi['content']); 
OR
$fi['content'] = iconv('','UTF-8',$fi['content']);  // convert to unicode
OR
$fi['content'] = iconv("UTF-8","ISO-8859-1",$fi['content']); // convert uft8 to windows latin 1
OR
$fi['content'] = iconv('','ISO-8859-1',$fi['content']); // try leaving the input type loose...


followed by:

$fd = fopen($my_file, 'w');
fwrite($fd, $fi['content']);
fclose($fd);

PHP docs say this should work.

What am I missing?

thanks