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how can I create a Japanese-Name windows folder with PHP?

Asked 2010-03-07 14:40:38 by YaSSeR

ok, what I'm trying to do is open a website using php
then get a certain japanese text from it and use it as a folder name under windows OS
how can i get php to support japanese to do this

Anwered 2010-03-07 15:08:09 by Fred W

You will need PHP 6 with unicode support for this. Then, unicode UTF8 can be used in filenames to achieve the result you want.

http://bugs.php.net/46990

indicates that the problem cannot be resolved in PHP 5.2 or 5.3.

PHP 6 is still in construction; if you really need this, try

http://snaps.php.net/

Hope this helps

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