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Bug #65358 php can't handle 8.3 names of files which have long names with unicode in them
Submitted: 2013-07-30 11:09 UTC Modified: 2020-11-18 16:22 UTC
Votes:11
Avg. Score:4.7 ± 0.6
Reproduced:10 of 10 (100.0%)
Same Version:4 (40.0%)
Same OS:6 (60.0%)
From: rsk82 at live dot com Assigned: cmb (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Filesystem function related
PHP Version: 5.4.17 OS: Windows XP
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2013-07-30 11:09 UTC] rsk82 at live dot com
Description:
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I don't know if this is expected. I know that php can't handle international file names in Windows but shortened paths have no Unicode characters in them so I do not see any reason that php should have any problem with that.

These paths are perfectly visible to 16bit win311 apps and such files are editable by those programs, of course them cannot see the correct name of the file but this doesn't count any problem with accessing their content. And if that I think php should have similar behavior here.

Maybe the php's filesystem functions are trying to "do better" and translate such path to it's normal mode and subsequently are confused about what they have done.

Test script:
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    <?
    $FS = new \COM('Scripting.FileSystemObject', null, CP_UTF8);
    $FS->CreateTextFile("c:\\Ελλάδα.txt");
    $ShortPath = $FS->GetFile("c:\\Ελλάδα.txt")->ShortPath;
    echo $ShortPath;
    $handle = fopen($ShortPath, 'w');
    ?>

Expected result:
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The script should run without any errors.

Actual result:
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Warning: fopen(C:\BFEE~1.TXT): failed to open stream: Invalid argument in C:\test.php on line 6

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0001-Workaround-to-support-short-path-which-has-Unicode-c (last revision 2013-10-04 09:23 UTC by ku at digitaldolphins dot jp)

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 [2013-07-30 11:12 UTC] rsk82 at live dot com
Functions affected are not only fopen, but all, no matter if writing or reading the file.

And I think it is and issue in all of the php versions in windows not only 5.4.
 [2013-07-30 16:48 UTC] ab@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Duplicate
 [2013-07-30 16:48 UTC] ab@php.net
This the general issue with non 7-bit encoded filenames, so duplicate of bug 
#64699, see also bug #61315.
 [2013-07-30 17:13 UTC] rsk82 at live dot com
Yes, but there are different things to add support for full fledged unicode names on windows and support only for shortened 8.3 dos paths that have no unicode chars in them. I thought that such names would by completely transparent to php like they are for 16 apps. This is not exact duplicate.
 [2013-08-19 06:34 UTC] pajoye@php.net
-Status: Duplicate +Status: Assigned -Assigned To: +Assigned To: pajoye
 [2013-08-19 06:34 UTC] pajoye@php.net
This is not a duplicate bug of the unicode paths support.

The problem here, in this exact (maybe other encoding could be affected but same 
cause then) issue, is that the CRT call FindFirstFileW instead of FindFirstFileA, 
despite that _UNICODE is defined.

Patch on its way.
 [2013-10-04 09:11 UTC] ku at digitaldolphins dot jp
As a workaround, you can trick php if you allow using ShortName instead of LongName.

You'll need to tweak tsrm_realpath_r.

I'll post a patch to avoid this issue.

Thanks
 [2015-01-29 17:43 UTC] henry dot fai dot hang dot chan at gmail dot com
Would this be fixed in time for PHP 7?
 [2017-10-24 07:37 UTC] kalle@php.net
-Status: Assigned +Status: Open -Assigned To: pajoye +Assigned To:
 [2020-11-18 16:22 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Closed -Assigned To: +Assigned To: cmb
 [2020-11-18 16:22 UTC] cmb@php.net
This has been fixed in the meantime due to UTF-8 path support[1].

[1] <https://www.php.net/manual/en/migration71.windows-support.php#migration71.windows-support.long-and-utf8-path>
 
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