PHP scandir() and htmlentities(): issues with charset and/or special characters

Question

I am using jqueryFileTree to show a directory listing on the server with download links to the files in the directory. Recently I\'ve run into an issue with files which cont

Answer 1

My best guess is that the filename itself isn't using UTF-8. Or at least scandir() isn't picking it up like that.

Maybe mb_detect_encoding() can shed some light?

var_dump(mb_detect_encoding($filename));

If not, try to guess the encoding (CP1252 or ISO-8859-1 would be my first guess) and convert it to UTF-8, see if the output is valid:

var_dump(mb_convert_encoding($filename, 'UTF-8', 'Windows-1252'));
var_dump(mb_convert_encoding($filename, 'UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-1'));
var_dump(mb_convert_encoding($filename, 'UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-15'));

Or using iconv():

var_dump(iconv('WINDOWS-1252', 'UTF-8', $filename));
var_dump(iconv('ISO-8859-1',   'UTF-8', $filename));
var_dump(iconv('ISO-8859-15',  'UTF-8', $filename));

Then when you've figured out which encoding is actually used, your code should look somewhat like this (assuming CP1252):

$filename = htmlentities(mb_convert_encoding($filename, 'UTF-8', 'Windows-1252'), ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');