hi Lester, On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > Ivan Enderlin @ Hoa wrote: >>> >>> As it may (very often) works smoothly on most unices, it won't work >>> ever using current releases or master on Windows. One has to set the >>> correct codepage and do the conversion from/to UTF-8. >> >> Exactly. I can detect if PHP is running on Windows and making the >> conversion >> on-the-fly but what kind of conversion? I have tried with utf8_decode() >> but it >> seems to also fail. Any other idea? > > > Oh that it was so simple ;) > > This is perhaps one of the reasons development of PHP6 ground to a halt?
No, it was not. Also unicode support on windows for IO operations (on the paths, not the contents) is planed for php-next+1 (aka not the 5.5 but the one after). I'd also to ask to do not hijack this thread with a php6/whatever else rant and keep focusing on answering Ivan's questions instead. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php