fwrite - utf8 - xml

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Hi there, I'm writing an rss file to my server with this function:

fwrite($handle, utf8_encode($somecontent))

$somecontent includes some text manually introduced and some pieces that come from a database:

$somecontent = "Text with spanish tilde á".$databaserow['moretext'];

Why the manually introduced text doesn't look utf8 encoded?

What I'm doing wrong?

 

Thanks for your help!