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

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 9:40 AM, R. S. <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Pierre,
>
> Friday, August 16, 2013, 5:38:01 AM, you wrote:
>
>> and  'TESTUN~1.PHP' has unicode, created using CreateFileW with
>> 'testunicode-ßäü123-öâ.php' as path. Fetch the 8.3 path and use it to
>> open the file using php, works. In other words. exactly what your COM
>> script does. Now, why you come to the conclusion that PHP can't open
>> 8.3 path is a misery to me right now. It can and without issue.
>
> It still seems you didn't read my examples, but this time your fresh mind
> actually helped narrowing the problem and thanks
> for that !
>
> Indeed 'testunicode-ßäü123-öâ.php' works without
> any issue. It seems that only some character ranges
> are making php unable to get to the file, like russian or greek.
>
> if you make files like:
> testunicode-Ελλάδα or testunicode-Россия
>
> Then php can't get handle to these files with errors like:
>
> Warning: fopen(C:\TESTUN~3.PHP): failed to open stream: Invalid argument
> in C:\test.php on line 7



> So the problem is even stranger.

Ok, now I can reproduce it. That's actually weird and have to look at it :)

> How the php filesystem function is ever supposed to
> know that the path contain unicode letter since it was given the shorth path.

Again, it does not. Nothing in php deals with unicode paths.

> It really looks like someone tried to implement unicode filename handling in PHP
> but stopped in middle.

No, nobody tried in any acitve branches, nor in master (not released
yet). And believe me, I know that very well.

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

@pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org

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