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I am using wordpress and added a function to change the uploads directory folder structure

everything goes as expected but when the function deals with Greek characters outputs text like

ΓΒ‘ΓΒ…ΓΒΈΓΒ±ΓΒ―ΓΒΓΒµΓΒ„ΓΒΏ

to be more specific

i have setup the variables

$client that holds a client's name and

$customdir that holds the directory path

$client='πελάτης';
$customdir ='/pm/' . $_POST['post_type'] . '/' . $_POST['YEAR']. '/' . $client;

I use the $customdir variable that contains $client var too, to create the uploads directory and if $client var is in english everything works flawlessly..

Can you help me to encode correctly the $customdir variable to be able to create greek named directories ??

tripleee
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Alex
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  • What is the encoding of your script file? Does your file system support UTF-8 file names? See also the [`character-encoding` tag wiki](http://stackoverflow.com/tags/character-encoding/info) for how to include useful diagnostics. – tripleee Jun 25 '15 at 05:36
  • My script file is in utf-8, how can i check my filesystem support? – Alex Jun 25 '15 at 19:41
  • On modern systems, it should be fairly transparent out of the box. For U*X including OSX, see http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/2089/what-charset-encoding-is-used-for-filenames-and-paths-on-linux and if you are on Windows, see maybe https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd317748(v=vs.85).aspx for a start (but given your "huh?" response I assume you are not on Windows). – tripleee Jun 26 '15 at 03:17
  • For context see also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18204364/php-upload-utf-8-filename – tripleee Jun 26 '15 at 03:20

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Thanks for the help i solved it by adding setlocale (LC_ALL, "el_GR.UTF-8");in the very first start of my function ...

Alex
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