Re: [INTERNALS-WIN] Question about using UTF-8 encoding for server variables used by PHP

Hi!

> If url contains non-ascii characters, e.g.
> http://mysite.com/2009/10/русские-символ, then this URL results in
> 404 in WordPress. WordPress uses REQUEST_URI server variable to get
> the originally requested URL. Over HTTP the non-english characters
> come as URL encoded, but IIS internally converts them to unicode.
> Then FastCGI module converts it back to ANSI before passing them to
> PHP.

I think having REQUEST_URI in some salvageable form is better than 
getting ???'s. Also, REQUEST_URI probably won't be used by the engine 
directly for filename access, though may be used by application - like 
MVC frameworks which route actions depending on REQUEST_URL.
IIRC PHP uses only SCRIPT_FILENAME and PATH_TRANSLATED from the request 
for filesystem access, the rest is stored but not used to find the script.
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Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect
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