fwrite() and UTF8

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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 all work fine and report as utf8.), but I am being told the file I am outputting contains non utf8 data :( Is there a command in bash (CentOS) to check the format of a file?

When using vim it shows the content as:

Donâ~@~Yt do anything .... Itâ~@~Ys a great site with everything....Weâ~@~Yve only just launched/

Any help would be appreciated: Either confirming the file is UTF8 or how to write utf8 content to a file.

UPDATE

To clarify how I know I have data in UTF8 i have done the following:

  1. DB is set to utf8 When saving data

  2. to database I run this first:

    $enc = mb_detect_encoding($data);

    $data = mb_convert_encoding($data, "UTF-8", $enc);

  3. Just before I run fwrite i have checked the data with Note each piece of data returns 'IS utf-8'

    if (strlen($data)==mb_strlen($data, 'UTF-8')) print 'NOT UTF-8'; else print 'IS utf-8';

Thanks!

fwrite utf-8 php
9 Answers
$handle = fopen($file,"w");
fwrite($handle, pack("CCC",0xef,0xbb,0xbf));
fwrite($handle,$file); 
fclose($handle);
user_35889060

There is some reason: first you get information from database it is not utf-8. if you sure that was true use this ,I always use this and it work :

$file= fopen('../logs/logs.txt','a');
fwrite($file,PHP_EOL."_____________________output_____________________".PHP_EOL);
fwrite($file,print_r($value,true));
user_108226700

Try this simple method that is more useful and add to the top of the page before tag <body> :

<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
</head>
user_94315290
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