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POUTF8 encoding difficulty using PHP in Notepad++
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copied!<p>I have been making a program that creates multiple CSV's from another source CSV (encoded in 'SJIS'/SHIFT-JIS). Here's the process in which I am creating them:</p> <ol> <li>Create a string, which will hold the contents of the output CSV's</li> <li>Fill in said strings with their proper information</li> <li>Encode the string to UTF-8 from SJIS using mb_convert_encoding() code:<br> $contents2 = mb_convert_encoding($contents, "UTF-8", "SJIS");</li> <li><p>Create a zip archive using PHP's provided library methods and append the files I desire with their corresponding strings using addFromString() code:<br> $zipFileName = "output.zip";</p> <pre><code> $zip = new ZipArchive; if ($zip->open($zipFileName, ZipArchive::CREATE) === TRUE){ $zip->addFromString('customer.csv', $contents2); ...do for the other files $zip->close(); } else{ echo 'Failed! File not created!'; } </code></pre></li> <li>Prompt the user with a dialogue box to save the file in their desired location. code: $zipContents = file_get_contents($zipFileName); header('Content-Type: application/zip'); header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=inflow.zip"); header("Pragma: no-cache"); header("Expires: 0"); echo $zipContents;</li> </ol> <p>Now here is my problem: The files that I have created from the zip file are encoded in "UTF-8 without BOM" when I open it in Notepad++. However, I require for these files to just be in plain "UTF-8". A inventory program I am using to upload these files, for reasons beyond me, will not show the proper characters for the CSV's encoded in "UTF-8 without BOM". Once I manually: open the files, re-encode it as "UTF-8", and save them, are the files able to display the correct characters in this inventory program. </p> <p>I have read a good deal of articles talking about the converse of this problem, where people were seeking to make their UTF-8 files become encoded without BOM. However, my situation is the exact opposite of this. If there's an easy solution in PHP I would more than welcome the help! Thanks for reading!!</p>

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