PHP Unicode file name

Question

PHP cannot handle a a file with Unicode characters: when I vist testSite/главная.php on my browser, it throws this error.

Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0

Fatal error: Unknown: Failed opening required 'blah/blah/testSite/Ð³Ð»Ð°Ð²Ð½Ð°Ñ.php' (include_path='.;C:\xampp\php\pear\') in Unknown on line 0

However testSite/главная.html is fine.

Is there anyway that I can get around this or do I have to use a different programming language that handles Unicode better?

Apache htdocs in folder with unicode name

Using non plain ASCII file names, using space in file names is like asking for troubles. **ALWAYS**. Make yourself a favor and drop your bad habits. — Marcin Orlowski, Oct 10 '12 at 10:55
I understand but I don't have the option to change the filenames. I gotta work with what I have. — Tristanisginger, Oct 10 '12 at 11:25
It is not possible. Here is the reason why: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/708017/can-a-php-file-name-or-a-dir-in-its-full-path-have-utf-8-characters/16941794#16941794 — Tristanisginger, May 28 '14 at 23:00

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 10 '12 at 11:01

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Opening a php file with a unicode file name is not a php thing, but depends on the underlying operating system. As long as the OS supports unicode file names, it wil work.

On my debian squeeze this is not a problem at all, and windows 7 (where netbeans runs) creating a file named главная.php is without trouble:

include 'главная.php';

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answered Oct 10 '12 at 11:01

JvdBerg

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I have created the file, it is running it on the server where it fails – Tristanisginger Oct 10 '12 at 11:24
I am running it locally on winXP / xammp – Tristanisginger Oct 10 '12 at 11:52

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 10 '12 at 11:11

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Seems to me, your webserver uses win-1252 encoding for URIs. Try to set utf-8 in your apache/nginx/whatever config. If unicode names are used in require()/include() context only, you can also convert encoding with iconv()/mb_convert_encoding().

answered Oct 10 '12 at 11:11

SlyChan

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Then how come testSite/главная.html is okay? – Tristanisginger Oct 10 '12 at 11:21

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 10 '12 at 11:34

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Maybe it works:

mb_internal_encoding('UTF-8');
ini_set('default_charset', 'UTF-8');

answered Oct 10 '12 at 11:34

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:02

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It is not possible.

Here is the thread explaining why

Can a PHP file name (or a dir in its full path) have UTF-8 characters?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:02

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answered May 28 '14 at 23:01

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Vitalicus · Answer 5 · 2017-04-05T23:29:53.173

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Use "wfio://" in PHP5

https://github.com/kenjiuno/php-wfio

For folder access use fix:

.htaccess:

php_value auto_prepend_file C:/fix.php

fix.php:

$file = $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'];
if (!is_readable($file)) {
    $file="wfio://".$file;
                include $file;
                exit;
        }

edited Apr 05 '17 at 23:29

answered Feb 22 '15 at 12:02

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PHP Unicode file name

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