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reading files with accents in the filename from PHP [message #183106] Wed, 09 October 2013 10:33 Go to previous message
Erwin Moller is currently offline  Erwin Moller
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Hello comp.lang.php,

How can PHP open files on the local filesystem that contain certain
characters, like umlauts, accents, etc?

I am currently developing on Win2008 with PHP 5.5.1 (CGI/FastCGI).
So the underlying filesystem is NTFS.

Files with names like the following are inaccessible:
ierländer.pdf
Eugène.pdf
etc.
All files without these characters ARE readable.

I test with:
$bIsReadable = ((file_exists($path)) && (is_readable($path)));
and these kind of filenames ALWAYS return false.

The files with the troublesome names open fine with a PDF reader.)

(It wouldn't be my own choice to store files under such names, but
that's how it is now.)

Background: Currently I am working on a Full Text Index on a whole bunch
of PDF files, and I need to access them from PHP in the process.

Does anybody know how to fix this problem?
How do I open files with accents in their filename?

Regards,
Erwin Moller

PS: I found this, which might be relevant:
http://evertpot.com/filesystem-encoding-and-php/
but it doesn't solve the issue.


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