Re: php can't resolve 8.3 paths to unicode filenames, is that expected ?

hi, On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 9:09 AM, R. S. <rsk82@live.com> wrote: > The code is provided in this thread and in my (dismissed) > bug report. > > <? > $FS = new \COM('Scripting.FileSystemObject', null, CP_UTF8); > $FS->CreateTextFile("c:\\Ελλάδα.txt"); > $ShortPath = $FS->GetFile("c:\\Ελλάδα.txt")->ShortPath; > echo $ShortPath; > $handle = fopen($ShortPath, 'w'); > ?> > > Here the file is created trough COM as it is stated in source code. > The com object isn't having any problem with translation from utf > to encoding used with windows file systems. COM is not PHP: You are calling the FileSystemObject's GetFile via COM which uses unicode APIs under the hood. Nothing to do with PHP streams. >> Also UTF-8 (or the likes) paths for IO operation has nothing to very >> little to do with Unicode support as described or tried in the never >> released PHP 6. It is "only" about using another set of the Windows >> file APIs, in very short, about using the <funcname>W ones instead of >> the <funcname>A (which are aliases to <funcname> when UNICODE define >> is not set). > > So this should be trivial to change in php's source code. Not really, and not only in PHP code but all dependencies PHP uses. -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org