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. <[email protected]> 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.



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Pierre

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