You always have to recode filenames to cp1251 if the files have Cyrillic in their names. Can it be made easier?

Question

PHP

As I understand it, directories in windows are encoded in cp1251, and because of this, when working with directories, everything has to be recoded from utf-8 to cp1251. Is it possible, for example, to recode a directory to utf-8? Or what is the best way out of this problem?

Answer 1

If you understand the question correctly, then use this function .
Somewhere at the beginning of your script:

setlocale(LC_ALL, 'ru_RU.UTF-8');
setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, 'POSIX');