On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Tom Worster <fsb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 5/28/09 2:06 PM, "Nitsan Bin-Nun" <nitsan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > i have tried this:
> >
> > <?php if (!defined('THROUGH_INDEX')) die('Sorry mate!');
> >>
> >> $default_locale = setlocale(LC_ALL, 'en_US.UTF-8');
> >> ini_set('default_charset', 'UTF-8' );
> >>
> >>
> >> $_GET['folder'] =
> >>
> preg_replace("/([\xE0-\xFA])/e","chr(215).chr(ord(\${1})-80)",$_GET['folder']
> >> );
> >>
> >> $dirname = $config['walls_dir'].$_GET['folder']."/".$_GET['filename'];
> >>
> >>
> >> if (!is_file($dirname)) { echo "leave();"; g($dirname);die;}
> >>
> >
> >
> > I'm still getting:
> >
> >> leave();
> >>
> >> string(56) "/home/nitsanbn/public_html/iphoneia/walls/חלל/008.jpg"
> >>
> >>
> > The preg_replace() above convert the Hebrew chars into UTF8.
> > The conversion does work but the file is not recognized as a file,
> although
> > that i can browse it straightly.
>
> why do you think that you need to do any conversion at all?
>
> that preg_replace looks terrifying! how did you come by it? i'm immediately
> suspicious that this is the problem.
>
> i googled the code and found people claiming that it translates window-1255
> to utf8 (2004, dubious) and iso-8859-1 to utf-8 (2005, dubious).
I came to that after a while, it is very common within Israeli developers ;)
>
>
> if you know that the browser is sending the GET variable 'folder' in a
> known
> encoding other than utf8, why not convert it with mb_convert_encoding or
> iconv?
>
> alternatively, force the user agent to send it in utf8 by sending the form
> as utf 8 (send header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8'), and use
> accept-charset="utf-8" in the form tag) and don't convert. then you can
> avoid all conversions.
>
That's the thing, I do NOT know the encoding of the GET parameters.
They are not submitting any form, the request is made through a link (<a>
tag).
>
>
> > I'm afraid that I don't have access to the php.ini, since it's a shared
> > hosting, do you know if hostgator gives access to php.ini or let you
> changes
> > it's values?
>
> i have no idea. but i imagine it is sufficient to use ini_set().
>
>
>
I have used the ini_set() you submitted but no luck yet.
Any further ideas or suggestions will be appreciated :)
