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Asked: 2026-06-16T02:38:39+00:00

I’m trying to save HTML to a .html file, This is working: $html_file =

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I’m trying to save HTML to a .html file,

This is working:

$html_file = "output.html";
$output_string="string with characters like ã or ì";
$fileHandle = fopen($html_file, 'w') or die("file could not be accessed/created");
fwrite($fileHandle, $output_string);
fclose($fileHandle);

When I check the output.html file, these special characters in my output_string are not read correctly.

My HTML file can’t have a <head> tag with the charset information, this makes it work, but my output can’t have any <html>, <head> or <body> tags.

I have tried stuff like 

header('Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8');

I also tried utf8_encode() on the string before fwrite, but with no success so far.

If I read the output.html file in Notepad++ or Netbeans IDE, it shows the correct characters being saved, it’s the browser that isn’t them reading properly.

I’m pretty sure PHP is saving my file with the incorrect charset, because if I create HTML files in my computer with those special characters (even without any charset setting), these are read correctly.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try to add a BOM (Byte Order Mark) to your file :

    $output_string = "\xEF\xBB\xBF";
$output_string .= "string with characters like ã or ì";
$fileHandle = // ...
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