How to deal w/ directories and files with French character?

[eluser]minimal design[/eluser]
Hi - thanks for response...

I didn't mean to say it was Ci's fault, I'm just asking here because I'm using CI and that I know they're a bunch of very smart people around here

I ended up having to do something like that:

Code:

$map = $this->utf8_encode_array(directory_map('./projects/'));

With the "utf8_encode_array()" being a recursive function that uses the PHP "utf8_encode()" to check every array keys + values. I"m still looking for a better way ot handle this, and wether or not there's a way to force UTF-8 conversion with a general CI setting (besides the one in conf $config['charset'] = "UTF-8"; which doesn't seem to have any effect in that case

Thanks!