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

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=30195&edit=1 ID: 30195 Comment by: bsy at breadlab dot net Reported by: percy at savant dot us Summary: scandir etc cannot read Chinese file/folder name Status: No Feedback Type: Bug Package: *Directory/Filesystem functions Operating System: windows xp/2003 PHP Version: 5CVS-2004-09-22 (dev) Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: All solutions above didn't solve the problem in php5.2.12. I'm using Korean Windows7 and failed to print japanese characters. But my system could print Korean, special letters(like ☆), and the characters that are used in both Korean and Japanese. For example, 靑 is used in Korean and 青 is used in Japanese. Then my system prints only the former. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-11-04 12:45:52] martin dot keckeis1 at gmail dot com Its a problem in PHP general. This could have been solved with PHP 6.0 (general multibyte support). There are some workarounds in the internet with the windows console. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-06-07 00:08:23] spidgorny at gmail dot com Same problem (files with question marks) with Russian files in PHP 5.3.0 on Windows 7. mb_convert_encoding() can't help converting question marks. Maybe DirectoryIterator will help. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-08-29 18:13:24] onekamil at gmail dot com Hi, have the same problem and my solution is: using mb_convert_encoding. $open = opendir($path); foreach( $open as $value ) { $value = mb_convert_encoding($value, mb_detect_order($value), "UTF-8"); } If saving file to folder using urlencode. To view using urldecode. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-03-31 23:30:05] missingno at ifrance dot com 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... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=30195 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=30195&edit=1