How to open file in PHP that has unicode characters in its name?

Question

For example I have a filename like this - проба.xml and I am unable to open it from PHP script.

If I setup php script to be in utf-8 than all the text in script is u

Answer 1

You could try:

• getting the string for the filename from a directory listing using opendir and readdir
• passing that string to file_get _contents to see if that will work, or
• try getting the content of the file using fopen, fread and fclose

Hope this helps!