note 102670 modified in function.imagecreatefromjpeg by danbrown

utf-8 seems NOT to work as pic name - my solution:

<?php
$pic = '/path/to/picture.jpg';
imagecreatefromjpeg (utf8_decode($pic));
?>

--was--
utf-8 seems NOT to work as pic name - my solution:

imagecreatefromjpeg (utf8_decode([PIC]));

http://php.net/manual/en/function.imagecreatefromjpeg.php