PHP - Encoding - uploading with greek characters on the filename

[p3040029]

I am trying 2 weeks now to make α form that can upload a file, with greek characters on its filenamε (example: "πατάτα.doc") but nothing. All i get is an upload file with weird/unreadble characters on its filename.

 

WHAT I'VE TRYIED SO FAR:

1) HTML utf8 encoding on headers

 

NOTE: I am not interested on 1-8859-7 charset(GREEK ISO), only UTF-8!

 

THANKS!!!!!

[unidox]

if using utf-8, i think it only supports url names, as in if you visit a site with an accent mark on a letter, it converts it to the original letter.

[MadTechie]

What OS are you running ?

 

Windows filesystems (FAT, FAT32, NTFS) are not UTF-8 aware.

Filenames are encoded in ISO-8859-1 or CP437/CP850/( or whatever suits your language) depending on filesystem and localisation.

 

Many distributions of Linux are by default setup with an UTF-8 filesystem, but not all..

 

really we need more info and some test data