Bug #54977 [Dup]: UTF-8 files and folder are not shown

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54977&edit=1 ID: 54977 User updated by: andrea dot rizzini at slidepath dot com Reported by: andrea dot rizzini at slidepath dot com Summary: UTF-8 files and folder are not shown Status: Duplicate Type: Bug Package: Filesystem function related Operating System: Window 7 PHP Version: 5.2.17 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Well as you know window 7 is the base of window 2008 R1 and window 2008 R2 servers while window 2003 server is based on the vista. Both of these systems use Unicode - UCS-2LE character encoding. Any ideas on when it will be fixed? Could you suggest a workaround or a temporary fix? I'm building a PHP extension with BOOST and WString in order to amend to this shortfall. Is there any suggestion to can tell me? You help is very appreciated. Regards Andrea Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-06-02 14:17:37] pajoye@php.net There is already a request about supporting unicode FS on Windows. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-06-02 14:15:54] andrea dot rizzini at slidepath dot com Description: ------------ Listing the content of a directory using the standard php functions does not return any files or folders which have UTF-8 charcters. Windows 7 Supports Unicode "UCS-2LE" so you can create any folder / files like the following: (王 (king in Japanese) and 汚れて掘る (dirty dog on Japanese)). If you list the directory where you have these files you will get ?????, ?????. After a bit of investigation I've noticed that PHP internally treats any string literal in ISO8859-1. I've tried to change the default encoding to UTF-8 in the php.ini but IT DOES NOT WORK. Test script: --------------- Create several UTF-8 folders using chinese or japanese character. List them using the standard php function opendir like: $myDirectory = opendir("."); // get each entry while($entryName = readdir($myDirectory)) { $dirArray[] = $entryName; } // close directory closedir($myDirectory); // count elements in array $indexCount = count($dirArray); Print ("$indexCount files<br>\n"); Notice that the UTF-8 encoded files are returned as ??????? Expected result: ---------------- It should return the full list of directoried including directories with UTF-8 encoded name Actual result: -------------- It only return folders which have a characters contained in IS08859-1 . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54977&edit=1