JSmallfib php 5.4 and special characters

[perbrix]

After my web hotel - Surftown - has upgraded to php 5.4.1, I have problems with the JSmallfib extension and the Danish special characters like æ, ø and å in the filenames. Any suggestions how to solve this issue?

[rbrekken]

I have the same problem with the same (Norwegian) characters. File names or folder containing these characters are blank/empty, just the icon is visible and the link is unusable. Great extension, use it a lot, but without those characters it becomes unusable.

[perbrix]

We have the problem because htmlspecialchars has changed it's default 3. value in PHP 5.4 from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8. You can see more details in the PHP maual.

My work around has been to modify the JSmallfib.php file. You have to make modicification in 2 (two) sections.

In section // Reading the data of files and directories
Delete or deactivate:
//$dirs[] = htmlspecialchars($it);
Insert this line:
$dirs[] = htmlspecialchars($it, ENT_COMPAT | ENT_HTML401 , 'ISO-8859-1' );

In section // file list filtering
also make above changes

[rbrekken]

Thanx, worked like a charm... :-)

[Invader-CH]

Very useful.
Using this work around I'm now able to upload Files or create Folders using German Umlauts
But I'm not able to delete Files or Folders with German Umlauts.
Any idea? I would be very grateful...