file_get_contents("משלי.xml")

[Ultimater]

file_get_contents doesn't seem to allow me to open any file with unicode characters within its file name.

Source of storeUnicodeCharsSafely.txt set to utf-8:

משלי.xml

<?php
$XMLFileName=file_get_contents("storeUnicodeCharsSafely.txt");
echo file_get_contents($XMLFileName);//file does not exist
?>

Just because the file name contains unicode characters, does the file become TOTALLY unaccessible to PHP? Surely there is some kind of input string I can feed it that would represent the file. Can mb_convert_encoding help?

[NightShift58]

I had a similar problem trying to read German files. I just used utf8_decode($file_name) and it solved it for me...

[Ultimater]

I saved my PHP page under the utf-8 encoding and ran:

<?php
echo file_get_contents(utf8_decode("משלי.xml"));
?>

and it fails to open the file. Guess Hebrew characters are different...

[Ultimater]

Maybe I could use Perl here to escape the Hebrew characters first then pass the encoded string to PHP. Hmm...