Make PHP pathinfo() return the correct filename if the filename is UTF-8

Question

When using PHP\'s pathinfo() function on a filename known to be UTF-8, it does not return the correct value, unless there are \'normal\' characters in front of

Answer 1

A temporary work-around for this problem appears to be to make sure there is a 'normal' character in front of the accented characters, like so:

function getFilename($path)
{
    // if there's no '/', we're probably dealing with just a filename
    // so just put an 'a' in front of it
    if (strpos($path, '/') === false)
    {
        $path_parts = pathinfo('a'.$path);
    }
    else
    {
        $path= str_replace('/', '/a', $path);
        $path_parts = pathinfo($path);
    }
    return substr($path_parts["filename"],1);
}

Note that we replace all occurrences of '/' with '/a' but this is okay, since we return starting at offset 1 of the result. Interestingly enough, the dirname part of pathinfo() does seem to work, so no workaround is needed there.