Unicode PHP file name issue

[Dejan31]

Okay, I don't know if this section of the site is appropriate for this problem, but this is a burning one. I asked this on StackOverflow, but - according to them - this is not worth answering... The PHP file is in the root directory.

 

I have a URL:

www.mysite.com/Š.php?open=Šambala

 

The PHP file:

<?php

switch($_GET["open"])
{
    case "Šambala": include("/Path/to/the/file/Shambala.html"); break;

}

?>

 

Now, when I click on the above URL, it returns 404... I don't know is the problem in the unicode file name of "Š.php", or in my .htaccess file, which is listed below. Mod_rewrite is enabled (RewriteEngine On).

 

The .htaccess file:

DirectoryIndex Index.html Index.htm Index.php Index.php3 Index.phtml Index.php5 Index.shtml Default.html Default.htm Default.php index.html index.htm index.php index.php3 index.phtml index.php5 index.shtml default.html default.htm default.php

IndexIgnore *

DefaultLanguage en-US

SetEnv TZ Europe/Belgrade

Options All -Indexes +MultiViews +FollowSymLinks

AddType 'text/html; charset=UTF-8' html

IndexIgnore *.wmv *.mp4 *.avi *.pdf

LimitRequestBody 10240000

AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

ServerSignature Off

ErrorDocument 400 /400/
ErrorDocument 403 /403/
ErrorDocument 404 /404/

RewriteEngine On

 

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /+[^\.]+$
RewriteRule ^(.+[^/])$ %{REQUEST_URI}/ [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

Edited December 25, 2015 by Dejan31

[QuickOldCar]

All unsafe characters should be encoded in the url.

 

See RFC 1738 for what should be allowed

[requinix]

If you're getting a 404 then the PHP isn't executing in the first place. Try with just S.php and see if it works.

[Dejan31]

If you're getting a 404 then the PHP isn't executing in the first place. Try with just S.php and see if it works.

Yes, I thought so too. It works well with all the other letters, except Š, Đ, Č, Ć and Ž... Note that it worked perfectly with my previous hosting provider, but when I switched to a new one, the problem occured. Should I encode the name of file itself, or just add the encoded name in the link that opens it? Or something else?

Edited December 25, 2015 by Dejan31

[Dejan31]

So no solution? PHP is not allowing unicode file name?

[requinix]

Might it be running on Windows?

[Dejan31]

Might it be running on Windows?

No, it’s Linux.

[requinix]

Huh. Linux typically handles Unicode filenames well.

 

Are you absolutely sure the file is named correctly? Do you have shell access? SSH to the server, make sure your client is set to use UTF-8 encoding, and do an ls of the directory to see if the file is called Š.php.

[Jacques1]

Why on earth do you want non-ASCII filenames, anyway? This is user-hostile (most people don't even have that character on their keyboard), it's obviously a pain to implement (at least in your environment), and it essentially limits your website to a small geographical area forever.

 

The point of a URL is to uniquely and permanently(!) identify a resource. That means it's definitely not the right place to play around with fancy characters.

[Dejan31]

Why on earth do you want non-ASCII filenames, anyway? This is user-hostile (most people don't even have that character on their keyboard), it's obviously a pain to implement (at least in your environment), and it essentially limits your website to a small geographical area forever.

 

The point of a URL is to uniquely and permanently(!) identify a resource. That means it's definitely not the right place to play around with fancy characters.

Because I'm from Serbia, and the site is in Serbian, so the five files are named Š Đ Č Ć Ž (Unicode). And my keyboard is made for Adriatic region. Not a pain actually, as I said above it worked fine with my previous hosting provider, but when I migrated the impossible happened, although the new one also uses Linux.

 

Huh. Linux typically handles Unicode filenames well.

 

Are you absolutely sure the file is named correctly? Do you have shell access? SSH to the server, make sure your client is set to use UTF-8 encoding, and do an ls of the directory to see if the file is called Š.php.

The files are fully named literally as Š.php, Đ.php, Č.php, Ć.php and Ž.php and they all use the "switch case" command, and also they worked well until now when I migrated the site. So, the problem is either in the server my site is hosted on, or in my files's names, that's why I asked here for help to resolve it. The Apache's default charset is set on UTF-8, as my hosting provider just told me, and I added the following at the top of my .htaccess file:

 

IndexIgnore *

 

IndexOptions +Charset=UTF-8

 

DefaultLanguage en-US

 

SetEnv TZ Europe/Belgrade

SetEnv SERVER_ADMIN dejan@fmdh.rs

 

Options All -Indexes +MultiViews +FollowSymLinks

 

AddType 'text/html; charset=UTF-8' html