Re: Charset and filenames

"Jochem Maas" <jochem@iamjochem.com> wrote in message news:4223C773.1020303@iamjochem.com... > Gustavo Lopes wrote: >> I appreciate your reply but I'm not satisfied. >> >> "Richard Lynch" <ceo@l-i-e.com> wrote in message >> news:3535.66.99.91.45.1109635746.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com... >> >>>Gustavo Lopes wrote: >>> >>>>I'm building a script that makes a list of files available in a >>>>directory >>>>(PHP 4.3.10, Apache 2.0.53, windows, NTFS file system). The XHTML is >>>>served >>>>as ISO-8859-1. However, I'm having trouble in generating correct links >>>>for >>>>files with accents, etc. >>>>The problem is rawurlencode() appears to convert strings by translating >>> >>>I don't suppose there's any way to just rename the file... >> >> I don't want to rename any file, just change a link destination by >> encoding >> the filename differently. >> >> >>>You may be able to do the urlencode() and then un-do the %3E back to, err >>>whatever it was. >> >> What? Where did you get that %3E from? > > I think he was just typing off memory and quoted a different encoded > char... > my encoding battles are always a trail and error affair until 'it' > does what I want... but maybe these 2 functions may help you: > > http://nl2.php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-encode.php > http://nl2.php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-decode.php > > >> >> Gustavo Lopes >> Thank you, utf8_encode() is in fact the solution to my problem. A function $s -> htmlentities(rawurlencode(utf8_encode($s))) seems to be able to produce correct output for every file. Gustavo Lopes