Working with files and utf8 in PHP

Question

Lets say I have a file called foo.txt encoded in utf8:

aoeu  
qjkx
ñpyf

And I want to get an array that contains all the lines in that file

Answer 1

It sounds like you've already got your answer, but it is important to recognize that unicode characters can be stored in multiple ways. Unicode normalization* is a process which can help ensure comparisons work as expected.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence