requeijaum · June 23, 2019 02:26
diff --git a/test_unicode.php b/test_unicode.php
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    <h1>Check Unicode on a web server with php</h1>

    <p>If your filenames requires characters with diacritics or any Unicode characters and not only the strict latin characters (26 letters + 10 numbers + some symbols and punctuation marks), the web server should be checked and fixed.</p>

    <h2>Checks</h2>

    <h3>First character check.</h3>
    <pre class="prettyprint">
    $filename = 'éfilé.jpg';
    if (basename($filename) != $filename) {
        echo sprintf('An error occurs when testing function "basename(\'%s\') : %s".', $filename, basename($filename));
    } else {
        echo 'Success!';
    }
    </pre>
    <?php
        $success = 0;
        $filename = 'éfilé.jpg';
        if (basename($filename) != $filename) {
            echo sprintf('An error occurs when testing function "basename(\'%s\') : %s".', $filename, basename($filename));
        } else {
            echo 'Success!';
            ++$success;
        }
    ?>

    <h3>Command line via web check (comparaison with a trivial function).</h3>
    <pre class="prettyprint">
    // @see http://www.php.net/manual/function.escapeshellarg.php#111919
    function escapeshellarg_unicode($string)
    {
        return "'" . str_replace("'", "'\\''", $string) . "'";
    }
    $filename = "File~1 -À-é-ï-ô-ů-ȳ-Ø-ß-ñ-Ч-Ł-'.Test.png";
    if (escapeshellarg($filename) != escapeshellarg_unicode($filename)) {
        echo sprintf('An error occurs when testing function "escapeshellarg(\'%s\')": %s', $filename, escapeshellarg_unicode($filename));
    } else {
        echo 'Success!';
    }
    </pre>
    <?php
        // @see http://www.php.net/manual/function.escapeshellarg.php#111919
        function escapeshellarg_unicode($string)
        {
            return "'" . str_replace("'", "'\\''", $string) . "'";
        }
        $filename = "File~1 -À-é-ï-ô-ů-ȳ-Ø-ß-ñ-Ч-Ł-'.Test.png";
        if (escapeshellarg($filename) != escapeshellarg_unicode($filename)) {
            echo sprintf('An error occurs when testing function "escapeshellarg(\'%s\')": %s', $filename, escapeshellarg_unicode($filename));
        } else {
            echo 'Success!';
            ++$success;
        }
    ?>

    <h2>Fix for Apache (here for Debian and derivative distribution)</h2>
    <?php if ($success !== 2): ?>
    <p>Your server is not fully compatible with Unicode. The following fix (or another one) is required.</p>
    <?php else: ?>
    <p>Your server is fully compatible with Unicode. The following fix is not required.</p>
    <?php endif; ?>
    <br />
    <p>Two solutions are possible, and they require to config the file /etc/apache2/envvars, where it is indicated:</p>
    <pre class="prettyprint">
        ## The locale used by some modules like mod_dav
        export LANG=C
        ## Uncomment the following line to use the system default locale instead:
        #. /etc/default/locale
    </pre>
    <ul>
    <li>First solution is to uncomment the line as specified and to add a generic value for numbers to avoid other issues:</li>
    <pre class="prettyprint">
    . /etc/default/locale
    export LC_NUMERIC=C
    </pre>
    <li>The second solution is more generic: don‘t uncomment the line, but replace "export LANG=C" by "C.UTF-8":</li>
    <pre class="prettyprint">
    #export LANG=C
    export LANG="C.UTF-8"
    </pre>
    </ul>
    <p>Don‘t forget to relaunch the server between two tests.</p>
    <pre class="prettyprint">
        sudo systemctl restart apache2
    </pre>
    <p>In fact, the default locale of Apache is "C" for historic and geographic reasons (USA based), so it should be changed to any UTF-8 compliant locale, for example the default locale of Debian, "en_US.UTF-8". Apache does not apply it by default, so it should be fixed.</p>
    <p>Ideally, the default locale of Apache should be the generic "C.UTF-8", but it is not possible, because American people wouldn't understand why they would lose their "en_US.UTF-8".</p>
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	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html lang="en">
	<head>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	</head>
	<body>
	<h1>Check Unicode on a web server with php</h1>

	<p>If your filenames requires characters with diacritics or any Unicode characters and not only the strict latin characters (26 letters + 10 numbers + some symbols and punctuation marks), the web server should be checked and fixed.</p>

	<h2>Checks</h2>

	<h3>First character check.</h3>
	<pre class="prettyprint">
	$filename = 'éfilé.jpg';
	if (basename($filename) != $filename) {
	echo sprintf('An error occurs when testing function "basename(\'%s\') : %s".', $filename, basename($filename));
	} else {
	echo 'Success!';
	}
	</pre>
	<?php
	$success = 0;
	$filename = 'éfilé.jpg';
	if (basename($filename) != $filename) {
	echo sprintf('An error occurs when testing function "basename(\'%s\') : %s".', $filename, basename($filename));
	} else {
	echo 'Success!';
	++$success;
	}
	?>

	<h3>Command line via web check (comparaison with a trivial function).</h3>
	<pre class="prettyprint">
	// @see http://www.php.net/manual/function.escapeshellarg.php#111919
	function escapeshellarg_unicode($string)
	{
	return "'" . str_replace("'", "'\\''", $string) . "'";
	}
	$filename = "File~1 -À-é-ï-ô-ů-ȳ-Ø-ß-ñ-Ч-Ł-'.Test.png";
	if (escapeshellarg($filename) != escapeshellarg_unicode($filename)) {
	echo sprintf('An error occurs when testing function "escapeshellarg(\'%s\')": %s', $filename, escapeshellarg_unicode($filename));
	} else {
	echo 'Success!';
	}
	</pre>
	<?php
	// @see http://www.php.net/manual/function.escapeshellarg.php#111919
	function escapeshellarg_unicode($string)
	{
	return "'" . str_replace("'", "'\\''", $string) . "'";
	}
	$filename = "File~1 -À-é-ï-ô-ů-ȳ-Ø-ß-ñ-Ч-Ł-'.Test.png";
	if (escapeshellarg($filename) != escapeshellarg_unicode($filename)) {
	echo sprintf('An error occurs when testing function "escapeshellarg(\'%s\')": %s', $filename, escapeshellarg_unicode($filename));
	} else {
	echo 'Success!';
	++$success;
	}
	?>

	<h2>Fix for Apache (here for Debian and derivative distribution)</h2>
	<?php if ($success !== 2): ?>
	<p>Your server is not fully compatible with Unicode. The following fix (or another one) is required.</p>
	<?php else: ?>
	<p>Your server is fully compatible with Unicode. The following fix is not required.</p>
	<?php endif; ?>
	<br />
	<p>Two solutions are possible, and they require to config the file /etc/apache2/envvars, where it is indicated:</p>
	<pre class="prettyprint">
	## The locale used by some modules like mod_dav
	export LANG=C
	## Uncomment the following line to use the system default locale instead:
	#. /etc/default/locale
	</pre>
	<ul>
	<li>First solution is to uncomment the line as specified and to add a generic value for numbers to avoid other issues:</li>
	<pre class="prettyprint">
	. /etc/default/locale
	export LC_NUMERIC=C
	</pre>
	<li>The second solution is more generic: don‘t uncomment the line, but replace "export LANG=C" by "C.UTF-8":</li>
	<pre class="prettyprint">
	#export LANG=C
	export LANG="C.UTF-8"
	</pre>
	</ul>
	<p>Don‘t forget to relaunch the server between two tests.</p>
	<pre class="prettyprint">
	sudo systemctl restart apache2
	</pre>
	<p>In fact, the default locale of Apache is "C" for historic and geographic reasons (USA based), so it should be changed to any UTF-8 compliant locale, for example the default locale of Debian, "en_US.UTF-8". Apache does not apply it by default, so it should be fixed.</p>
	<p>Ideally, the default locale of Apache should be the generic "C.UTF-8", but it is not possible, because American people wouldn't understand why they would lose their "en_US.UTF-8".</p>
	<br />
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