PHP url encoding problems

Question

I have some URL which is in CP-1251 i believe. For example:

http://domain.com/Test - СЃСѓС‚СЊ РІ СЌС‚РѕРј.mp3

mb_detect_encoding says it is ASCII. However, I've tried to convert this to UTF-8, but no luck. However the following worked:

$url = mb_convert_encoding(urldecode($url), "Windows-1251", "auto");

Which means that it converted the url to Windows-1251. Which is strange, but it shows the characters right. But when I insert this converted url inside an html object (some music player) it doesn't work. Firebug shows an error:

"NetworkError: 404 Not Found - http://domain.com/Test%20-%20????%20?%20????.mp3"

So somehow I got question marks instead of a right url. urlencode doesn't help.

The file itself is utf-8.

I'm confused with all this stuff. Is there any solution here?

Have you tried utf8_encode($url)? If your page has it's encoding set to utf-8, this should work. — Michael Mior
– Michael Mior, Commented Nov 10, 2011 at 19:58
@Michel Mior - yes I have. And it gives me the following: http://domain.com/Test - Ð¡ÐÐ¡ÑÐ¡âÐ¡Ð Ð Ð Ð¡ÐÐ¡âÐ ÑÐ Ñ.mp3 which isn't good of course. — grjj3
– grjj3, Commented Nov 10, 2011 at 20:03
When you say "the file itself is utf-8" do you mean the HTML page? — Michael Mior
– Michael Mior, Commented Nov 10, 2011 at 20:48
Yes. It doesn't matter now, the problem is solved. Thanks for everybody here for your replies. — grjj3
– grjj3, Commented Nov 10, 2011 at 21:57
Could you post your solution as an answer for future readers? — Michael Mior
– Michael Mior, Commented Nov 10, 2011 at 21:58

lsl · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-10 20:51:36Z

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Not exactly sure what answer you're looking for but its original encoding is Windows-1251, you can check with iconv:

var_dump(detect_encoding($url);

function detect_encoding($string) { 
  static $list = array('utf-8', 'windows-1251');

  foreach ($list as $item) {
    $sample = iconv($item, $item, $string);
    if (md5($sample) == md5($string))
      return $item;
  }
  return null;
}

This site can also be quite helpful: Universal Cyrillic Decoder

answered Nov 10, 2011 at 20:51

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grjj3 · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-25 21:49:02Z

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Solved.

Just needed to take the file name separately and rawurlencode it.

edited Dec 25, 2011 at 21:49

answered Dec 24, 2011 at 21:54

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