Hello Anatol, Tuesday, July 30, 2013, 6:32:42 PM, you wrote: > This is a known issue with 8 bit filenames, please read here Yes, but 8.3 names are not 8-bit. > If you work with COM, why don't > you use it to get the file contents? I really need a file handle to use with for example curl which needs it to store content of downloading file. Is there a way of producing a file handle with COM that is understandable by php ? -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php