Writing Euro symbol with utf encoding

[VK]

Hello All
I am writing a string from the database into a text file which contains
"Euro" symbol . I have tried using iconv() and utf_encode and
mb_convert_enco ding() functions to convert the string to Unicode but the
text file created has just a square box in place of the Euro symbol. Can
anybody help me in this matter ?
Thanks in advance
VK

[Andy Hassall]

Re: Writing Euro symbol with utf encoding

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 18:56:59 +0100, "VK" <vgopalNOSPAMkn ow@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>I am writing a string from the database into a text file which contains
>"Euro" symbol . I have tried using iconv() and utf_encode and
>mb_convert_enc oding() functions to convert the string to Unicode but the
>text file created has just a square box in place of the Euro symbol. Can
>anybody help me in this matter ?[/color]

What character set is the original file in?

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[VK]

Re: Writing Euro symbol with utf encoding

Andy Hassall wrote:[color=blue]
> On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 18:56:59 +0100, "VK"
> <vgopalNOSPAMkn ow@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> I am writing a string from the database into a text file which
>> contains "Euro" symbol . I have tried using iconv() and utf_encode
>> and mb_convert_enco ding() functions to convert the string to Unicode
>> but the text file created has just a square box in place of the Euro
>> symbol. Can anybody help me in this matter ?[/color]
>
> What character set is the original file in?[/color]

The text file is created on the fly as a ".txt" file. If i can create a
UTF-8 file i think i can get away with not encoding the string. But i cant
seem to be able to write the Byte Order Mark in the txt file.
Thanks for your reply.