#15706 [Ana->Csd]: readdir doesn't return correct FRENCH filenames

ID: 15706 Updated by: sfox@php.net Reported By: musallam@sympatico.ca -Status: Analyzed +Status: Closed Bug Type: Directory function related Operating System: WIN XP PHP Version: 4.1.1 New Comment: No feedback and the thing works now on XP at least, so I'm closing this bug down. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-08-06 19:39:44] sfox@php.net OK, for full strangeness try doing that readdir() with the current CVS version of PHP. Suddenly this week it started working on XP as it should (but not on win9x or ME, where it shouldn't, due to the aforementioned single byte char encoding). I'm still waiting to get test results from people with NT/w2k too, but if it works there I'm closing this bug report, as there's no way to differentiate between different flavours of Windows. Probably marked 'magic worked here'... although actually I suspect that Rui fixed it in 4.2 and something overrode that fix in the interim. Feedback would be useful at this point :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-08-05 08:29:59] sfox@php.net I just spent some days playing with this one before coming to the conclusion that it's not a PHP bug *as such*, more to do with MS character types not being ANSI-compatible. The PHP directory functions for win32 use MS functions which return MS-defined char types (as opposed to the PHP string functions, which don't touch MS and which work fine :). We use those to set up win32 directory functions in a way that is as nearly as possible compatible with unix-flavoured systems, and the returned char type is then used throughout the universal directory functions. Unfortunately 'char' in this instance means 'single byte'. Fixing the win32 dir functions within PHP to make it possible for other MS char types to be used would mean that the wrong type is returned to the PHP directory functions used by all systems. It appears that the only way to internationalise PHP in this area would be to separate out the win32 directory functions completely .. I'm not happy with the politics of this, particularly given the widespread use of dir and file names within PHP source (think of streams, etc). If anyone can think of a better way to implement dirent for win32, please do! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-07-14 17:54:10] sniper@php.net Does this happen if you run the same code fragment on command line? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-07-14 10:46:22] nohn@php.net On the Web you should always use 7-Bit ASCII (no german umlauts or these daft french characters or whatever is no "standard") ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-02-25 17:50:57] musallam@sympatico.ca I'm not sure either, but fact remains, the letters returned have either a wrong encoding or wrong string conversion... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/15706 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=15706&edit=1