Question

I have a php script that prompts the user to download a file:

header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename");

Works fine, except with foreign/chinese/arabic char sets; all I get is a load of letters/numbers.

طرائف الأطفال.txt becomes 7TcATQCIIZM.txt.

I need it to retain the original char set filename. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Try:

mysql_query('SET NAMES utf8');
mysql_query('SET CHARACTER SET utf8');

Before your PHP query that fetches the filename.