windows folder names encoding

Question

i have a folder in windows with Arabic name (utf8) i'm trying to get this name and display it in a browser using php

$enc = mb_detect_encoding($folder);
$utf8folder = iconv($enc, "UTF-8", $folder);
echo $utf8folder;

or

echo $folder;

getting ��...

help!

What happens if you just echo it, and set your page encoding to UTF-8? What is your doctype declaration, and relevant meta tags? — Brad
– Brad, Commented Aug 17, 2012 at 22:20
Can you show us your actual doctype declaration and meta tags? Also, what headers are being sent? — Brad
– Brad, Commented Aug 17, 2012 at 22:29
i'm displaying on an html page with meta: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> so it is already utf-8 — Ibrahim.I
– Ibrahim.I, Commented Aug 17, 2012 at 22:32

raidenace · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-17 22:26:54Z

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Add this as the first line of your php script and try:

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');

answered Aug 17, 2012 at 22:26

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i'm displaying on an html page with meta: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> so it is already utf-8

@user1576848, Did you even try his suggestion?

what does $enc say the encoding is?

@user1576848, Can you provide a link to this page?

@Brad.. actually it's localhost... no online page

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