#30195 [Com]: scandir etc cannot read Chinese file/folder name

ID: 30195 Comment by: missingno at ifrance dot com Reported By: percy at savant dot us Status: No Feedback Bug Type: *Directory/Filesystem functions Operating System: windows xp/2003 PHP Version: 5CVS-2004-09-22 (dev) New Comment: Same problem here. On WinXP with PHP 5.2.0, using iso-8859-1 as charset for the system (though the filesystem uses utf-8 for folders/files names). I need to access folders whose names are encoded using UTF-8. readdir/scandir won't allow me to do so (returning '?' for characters outside the system charset). The page is served like this: header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8'); So the browser really isn't at fault. Serving the document with a more specific charset is not an option since I have to display texts in many different languages on the page. As moleary at preg dot org suggested, it would be really nice to have an option to force PHP to use a certain encoding while accessing the filesystem. Or maybe, make it so that it uses the same encoding as the filesystem instead of defaulting to iso-8859-1... Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-07-10 10:02:31] gandhavallakiran at yahoo dot co dot in hi i have used the babel class in my coding of php. but it could not read the characters of china and japan i.e. special characters. it is displaying the blank space instead of china or japan text. could you help me in this reacord how to display china characters in php. please it is very urgent kindly help me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-02-25 01:00:07] php-bugs at lists dot php dot net No feedback was provided for this bug for over a week, so it is being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the information that was originally requested, please do so and change the status of the bug back to "Open". ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-02-17 15:22:16] moriyoshi@php.net Note that all of these are PHP code, so paste it within <?php ?>. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-02-17 15:20:57] moriyoshi@php.net You might have shown strings of a native encoding as UTF-8 in your browser, most likely because of wrong Content-Type. Try putting one of the following at the top of your script and let's see what'll happen: CP936 (Simplified Chinese): header('Content-Type', 'text/html; charset=GB2312'); CP949 (Korean): header('Content-Type', 'text/html; charset=EUC-KR'); CP950 (Traditional Chinese): header('Content-Type', 'text/html; charset=BIG5'); CP932 (Japanese): header('Content-Type', 'text/html; charset=Shift_JIS'); ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-01-28 18:02:07] moleary at preg dot org This is also the case for Japanese characters on the Windows platform. A note in the PHP manual says that opendir() uses ISO 8859-1 by default on WIndows installations. REPRO: 1) Install East Asian language supprto to XP through the Regioanl languages control panel 2) add a file with Japanese characters as the name (I copied a couple strings from the asahi.com web site) ACTUAL: 1) These same characters as text will be presented properly with the proper code page and/or header encoding. 2) The characters are not correctly parsed when looping through the contents of an opendir() on the directory in which you placed the file you created under the repro steps. EXPECTED: Ability to define charset for opendir(), or at very least use a more standard UTF-8 instead of ISO 8859-1 so that Asian named files can have their proper names returned by opendir() ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/30195 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=30195&edit=1