No matter what I do to the strings to encode them in whatever format before using "fwrite", it ALWAYS seems to end up writing the actual file in "iso-8859-1".
Isn't the encoding of the characters in PHP's strings, and the encoding of the actual binary file on your hard drive, two totally different things? Or am I just misinformed?
A file is completely defined by its contents. If you fwrite UTF-8 data to the file, then it is a UTF-8 file. Whether your editor, or whatever it is you are using to determine the file is being written as iso-8859-1 is smart enough to pick this up is a completely different question.
Why don't you try creating the same contents with PHP and with your preferred text editor and then compare the contents. Perhaps your editor is dropping a hint somewhere in it that you are not writing to the file from PHP.
-Rasmus
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