fwrite() and UTF8

Question

I am creating a file using php fwrite() and I know all my data is in UTF8 ( I have done extensive testing on this - when saving data to db and outputting on normal webpage a

Answer 1

The problem is your data is double encoded. I assume your original text is something like:

Don’t do anything

with ’, i.e., not the straight apostrophe, but the right single quotation mark.

If you write a PHP script with this content and encoded in UTF-8:

You will get something similar to your output.