PHP UTF-8 file naming (Persian name)

Question

I use the following code to build folder:

$dir = 'فارسی';
mkdir($dir);

But the created folder name converted to ظپط§ط±ط³غŒ

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This problem also exists in the upload files. I uploaded the فارسی.jpg but it converted to ظپط§ط±ط³غŒ.jpg

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This problem only exists on the local host. (I use windows 8 - xampp)

Answer 1

For Windows, the solution is to convert filename / folder name to Windows-1252 encoding:

$dir = 'فارسی';
$dir = iconv(mb_detect_encoding($dir, "auto"), 'Windows-1252', $string);
mkdir($dir);

I believe that is a reason why the error occcured on localhost and never on server: The server probably uses Linux.