I have an example filename: $filename = "./music/Daddy Yankee - ¿Qué Tengo Que Hacer.mp3"

When attempting to run if (file_exists($filePathAudio)) { } returns file not found Have confirmed that all other characters in string work properly except for this inverted question mark. How can I get the inverted mark to work, perhaps by some encoding % value?

The string for $filename is displayed by echo or log as the correct path, including all correctly named characters, but is thrown off by the mark.

CodePudding user response：

Probably is the encoding per se. Try to use this sentence:

file_exists(mb_convert_encoding($filename, "UTF-8"));

Another option:

file_exists(iconv('utf-8', 'cp1252', $filename))