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user1102979
user1102979

Reputation: 45

PHP Encoding - UTF-8

With cURL, I am saving files which have UTF-8 chars in the filename.

For example: 

testšć.docx

When I used mb_detect_encoding(), it returned ASCII.

So I tried to convert it with iconv from ASCII to UTF-8 and from UTF-8 to UTF-8.

Neither option worked.

So does anyone has a suggestion on how I could keep UTF-8 file names?

Cheers!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 460

Answers (2)

Dany Khalife
Dany Khalife

Reputation: 1850

In analogy with MySQL, when your MySQL data is encoded in UTF8 you should have php read it through a UTF8 "communication" so since your HTML data is in UTF8 i think your problem is (tho i don't have all your code to know if im correct) that you are not reading it as UTF8

Try adding this option to your cURL config:

curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "UTF-8" );

I don't know if this IS what you are missing, but in case not let me know and i'll update my answer...

Upvotes: 0

jmkeyes
jmkeyes

Reputation: 3781

Your file system (and operating system) must support UTF-8 encoded file names in order to retain files that use UTF-8 in the file name. If either do not support that, then the best option is to either convert them into a known transliteration, or discard (replace) the characters that cannot be converted.

Upvotes: 1

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