Form Help : Handle Chinese Character

Hi Pros,

I have a question regarding handling chinese character.

I have an text area for user to key in sth. But when the user key in Chinese Character and click a button[this button is for the user to save what he/she key in the textarea into their local directory].
The problem is when i view the file just save, all display funny symbol..

Can anyone tell me how to fix this problem i would sincerely appreciate?

Below is the php code i am using for the save button. I wonder if i want to fix this problem. how to start, is it because of my php script or html code....
I heard from people that using utf8_encode(string), how to add it in to my script?

Code:

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# <?php
# // Check for user data, if its not empty do this...
# if ( !empty( $_POST['FileContent'] ) )
# {
#        // stripslash the user input
#        $string = stripslashes( $_POST["FileContent"] );
#        // Create a unique-ish filename.
#        $FileName = "Sitemaps.php";
#        // Create and open the file.
#        $FileHandle = fopen ( $FileName, 'w' );
#        // Write the data.
#        fwrite ( $FileHandle, $string );
#        // Close the file.
#        fclose ( $FileHandle );
#        // Set file header information.
#        header ( 'Content-Type: text/html' );
#        header ( 'Content-Description: File Transfer' );
#        header ( 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' . basename( $FileName ) . '"' );
#        header ( 'Content-Length: ' . filesize( $FileName ) );
#        // Push file to client.
#        readfile( $FileName );
#        // Delete file.
#        unlink( $FileName );
# 
#        exit();
# }
# 
# ?>

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before I get into anything -- I don't know if you added them yourself, but those hash signs (#) are comments in PHP. for this script to run at all, you would need to remove them. now, to use utf8_encode(), you simply apply it to your POST variable before you save the file contents.

PHP Code:

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$encoded_string = utf8_encode($_POST['FileContent']); 


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