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15 years ago

Using pack to write Arabic char(s) to a file.

<?php
$text = "&#13574;&#13830;&#13830;";

$text = mb_convert_encoding($text, "UCS-2BE", "HTML-ENTITIES");

$len =  mb_strlen($text);

$bom = mb_convert_encoding("&#65534;", "unicode", "HTML-ENTITIES");

$fp = fopen('text.txt', 'w');

fwrite($fp, pack('a2', $bom));  
fwrite($fp, pack("a{$len}", $text));
fwrite($fp, pack('a2', $bom)); 
fwrite($fp, pack('a2', "\n"));

fclose($fp);
?>

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