Re: Hebrew Directory Names

On 5/28/09 2:06 PM, "Nitsan Bin-Nun" <nitsan@binnun.co.il> wrote: > preg_replace("/([\xE0-\xFA])/e","chr(215).chr(ord(\${1})-80)",$s); ... > The preg_replace() above convert the Hebrew chars into UTF8. that preg_replace takes a byte string $s and: - leaves bytes with value 0-127 intact - converts bytes with value 224-250 to the utf8 multibyte character code of the corresponding win-1255 character - produces an invalid utf8 output for all other code points, for which see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1255 so it's a win-1255 to utf-8 converter only so long as you are confident that code points 128-223 and 251-255 are never in the subject string. try iconv('CP1255', 'UTF-8', $s) instead.