How to create folders with greek names ???

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kostasps
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How to create folders with greek names ???

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Hallo friends,

I have this problem:
I want to create folders with php which will have greek names (e.g. not a folder called "kostas" but a folder called "Κώστας").
Now, i have made all the modifications in order my php files to read and write (to the browser and to the DataBase) in Greek and in English too and it works just fine in case of text, variables and values of the variables.
But when i want to create a folder, i can only give it an english name.
If i try to create a folder with a greek name, then it creates the folder but it's name is in symbols like "Μάκης" and i don't know what to do.
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Re: How to create folders with greek names ???

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kostasps wrote:Now, i have made all the modifications in order my php files to read and write (to the browser and to the DataBase) in Greek and in English too
How? (more specifically, what encoding do you use?)
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kostasps wrote:But when i want to create a folder, i can only give it an english name.
If i try to create a folder with a greek name, then it creates the folder but it's name is in symbols like "Μάκης" and i don't know what to do.
This may well be a limitation of the operating system
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Appolo,

Thank you for your reply,
The encoding i use in my php files is Unicode (UTF-8).
And i use thin encoding because otherwise my php files will not be able to send and recieve from the Database(Mysql) data in greek
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Mark,

Thank you too, for your quick reply,
I gess so, but if it really is a limitation of the os, i don't know how to fix it.
I run Windoes Vista Premium 32bit and my Web Server is IIS 7
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kostasps wrote:I gess so, but if it really is a limitation of the os, i don't know how to fix it.
I run Windoes Vista Premium 32bit and my Web Server is IIS 7
Can you create a directory or filename using Greek characters in Vista? Even if it's just renaming an existing file using standard windows explorer/right click/rename?
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Mark,

I can create a forler or a file both in English and Greek, Also when i create a file - or a folder - in English i can rename it to greek.
Maybe it has to do with the language that i chose to be the main language of my laptop.
I chose EN(United States)as the primary language and as a secondary language Greek. But despite my password is in greek - when i login - i have to choose the Greek of the U.S. keybord and not the Greek keybord, otherwise the os can not recognise my greek password.
Do you think that this can cose this problem?
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kostasps wrote:The encoding i use in my php files is Unicode (UTF-8).
And i use thin encoding because otherwise my php files will not be able to send and recieve from the Database(Mysql) data in greek
UTF-8 is good to use in mysql (pretty much always the best choice in any scenario, imho). But windows doesn't support it - that is, the function call to create a directory will expect an ansi filename, not utf-8. So your utf-8 string is interpreted as ansi - which results in the strange gibberish you're getting.

Try this instead:

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$folderName = iconv("utf-8", "iso-8859-7", $folderName);
// now create the folder
If that doesn't work, try "windows-1253" instead of "iso-8859-7".

If that still doesn't work, what does the following test output on your system?

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<?php
var_dump(iconv_get_encoding('all'));
print(locale_get_default());
?>
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Apollo,

Fisrt, i would like to apologise for my absense, but i was badly ill for one week (flew with high feaver).
Now i am ok and so buck in bussiness :D

I will try your directions and i will inform you as soon as possible.
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Apollo,

You was right :D
I inserted in my code the line "$folderName = iconv("utf-8", "iso-8859-7", $folderName);" and i can now create folders in greek.

Thank you very very much, you put me out of the deadend and now i can go on.

Thank you again
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kostasps wrote:Apollo,

You was right :D
I inserted in my code the line "$folderName = iconv("utf-8", "iso-8859-7", $folderName);" and i can now create folders in greek.

Thank you very very much, you put me out of the deadend and now i can go on.

Thank you again
Since this was solved, I'd just like to say. I'm so jealous. I love Greece. Went there once in high school. :offtopic: I know
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Skoalbasher wrote:
Since this was solved, I'd just like to say. I'm so jealous. I love Greece. Went there once in high school. :offtopic: I know



My friend Skoalbasher,

I would like to say that there isn't so much to be jealous of.
You see Greece is a good country to leave when you have plenty of money. Otherwise i think that is as every other country.
Let me tell you that me and many of my friends are thinking seriously to move and go somewhere else (Personally i would like to leave in England, Scotland - Edinburg or Spain). And the reason is that there is a mess with jobs.
There are few jobs - meaning that there are few companies for programmers/Web Developers - and the most of them are in our Capital city (Athens),so for the rest of us who leave in other cities (me in Thessaloniki), it is very difficult to move there.
Also the most of them they never pay you well enought and besides they ask you to do much more that your contract says, either you have the skills or not.(It is awfull :( ).
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