saving all variable values in matlab's workspace together with their names

I'd like to save all my variables in my workspace to a file together with their names in a certain way:

%<*firstVariableName>firstVariableValue(s)%</firstVariableName>
%<*secondVariableName>secondVariableValue(s)%</secondVariableName>

I'd like to save each variable on a new line. I've experimented with the function who, but I can't seem to get it to work.

I also have problem getting it to save as UTF-8, is there a simple encoding setting that could be changed?

[Matt Kindig]

Could you post your current code?

Are all variables scalar?

[Walter Roberson]

Is "s" to be the value, or is "firstVariableValue(s)" to be the value, or does the (s) indicate that there could be multiple values? If there could be multiple values, then how do you want to delimit them? What if the do not form a vector ? Are the values certain to be numeric ?