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Re: reading files with accents in the filename from PHP

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On 09/10/13 12:16, Erwin Moller wrote:
> On 10/9/2013 12:58 PM, Thomas Mlynarczyk wrote:
>> Erwin Moller schrieb:
>>
>>> How can PHP open files on the local filesystem that contain certain
>>> characters, like umlauts, accents, etc?
>>
>> $path = __DIR__ . '\Eugène.txt';
>> var_dump( PHP_VERSION, file_exists( $path ) );
>>
>
> That didn't help since my files are not stored in working dir.
>
>> Works on my Windows XP, PHP 5.4.8, *if* the PHP file is stored in ANSI
>> (="Windows") encoding. Doesn't work if stored in UTF8.
>
> Strange situation.
> I changed my PHP-files encoding to UTF-8, but the problem still occurred.
>
>
>   So I suspect it's
>> an encoding issue: the accented character "è" is stored as \xE8 in the
>> file system, but if your script is UTF8, then your $path will contain
>> \xC3\xA8 instead. With an "explicit" $path = __DIR__ . "\Eug\xE8ne.txt"
>> it works when the script is UTF8.
>>
>
> THAT helped!
>
> I added a replace:
> $path = str_replace("è","\xE8",$path);
>
> and now it IS readable from PHP.
>
> Now I wonder if I should make a whole list of such replaces....
> Sounds horrid, doesn't it?
>
> But your idea brought me to the following idea:
> $path = utf8_decode($path);
>
> Which works flawlessly (on my set of only 13000 filenames)!
>
> So at least I have it fixed for NTFS.
> Thanks for pointing my head in the right direction.
>
> Regards,
> Erwin Moller
>
>

and thanks for raising and solving that one..

tucked away in case its ever needed..

>> Greetings,
>> Thomas
>>
>
>


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reading files with accents in the filename from PHP Erwin Moller <erwinmollerusenet@xs4all.nl> - 2013-10-09 12:33 +0200
  Re: reading files with accents in the filename from PHP Thomas Mlynarczyk <thomas@mlynarczyk-webdesign.de> - 2013-10-09 12:58 +0200
    Re: reading files with accents in the filename from PHP Erwin Moller <erwinmollerusenet@xs4all.nl> - 2013-10-09 13:16 +0200
      Re: reading files with accents in the filename from PHP The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-10-09 12:18 +0100
        Re: reading files with accents in the filename from PHP Erwin Moller <erwinmollerusenet@xs4all.nl> - 2013-10-09 17:06 +0200
          Re: reading files with accents in the filename from PHP "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2013-10-09 10:51 -0500
          Re: reading files with accents in the filename from PHP "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2013-10-09 20:06 +0200
          Re: reading files with accents in the filename from PHP Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-10-10 03:07 +0200
    Re: reading files with accents in the filename from PHP Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-10-09 22:54 +0200
      Re: reading files with accents in the filename from PHP Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2013-10-09 23:33 +0200
        Re: reading files with accents in the filename from PHP Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-10-10 00:41 +0200
          Re: reading files with accents in the filename from PHP Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2013-10-31 21:34 +0100

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