php how-to-create-unicode-filenames

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Using the com_dotnet PHP extension, you can access Windows' Scripting.FileSystemObject, and then do everything you want with UTF-8 files/folders names.

I packaged this as a PHP stream wrapper, so it's very easy to use :

https://github.com/nicolas-grekas/Patchwork-UTF8/blob/lab-windows-fs/class/Patchwork/Utf8/WinFsStreamWrapper.php

First verify that the com_dotnet extension is enabled in your php.ini then enable the wrapper with:

stream_wrapper_register('win', 'Patchwork\Utf8\WinFsStreamWrapper');
Finally, use the functions you're used to (mkdir, fopen, rename, etc.), but prefix your path with win://

For example:

<?php
$dir_name = "Depósito";
mkdir('win://' . $dir_name );
?>
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or me the code below works well on Win7/ntfs, Apache 2.2.21.0 & PHP 5.3.8.0:

<?php
// this source file is utf-8 encoded

$fileContent = "Content of my file which contains Turkish characters such as şığŞİĞ";

$dirName = 'Dirname with utf-8 chars such as şığŞİĞ';
$fileName = 'Filename with utf-8 chars such as şığŞİĞ';

// converting encodings of names from utf-8 to iso-8859-9 (Turkish)
$encodedDirName = iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-9//TRANSLIT", $dirName);
$encodedFileName = iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-9//TRANSLIT", $fileName);

mkdir($encodedDirName);
file_put_contents("$encodedDirName/$encodedFileName.txt", $fileContent);
you can do same thing for opening files:

<?php
$fileName = "Filename with utf-8 chars such as şığ";
$fileContent = file_get_contents(iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-9//TRANSLIT", "$fileName.txt"));
print $fileContent;