| Re: reading files with accents in the filename from PHP [message #183110 is a reply to message #183109] |
Wed, 09 October 2013 15:06   |
Erwin Moller
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On 10/9/2013 1:18 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> 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..
>
I don't have a good feeling about my "fix".
It worked, but I don't know exactly what is going on.
I actually hoped PHP would handle such things 'the right way', whatever
that might be. ;-)
Now I wonder what happens if my code happens to run on some *nix OS.
Ideally my PHP code is OS agnostic.
Regards,
Erwin Moller
--
"That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without
evidence."
-- Christopher Hitchens
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