Issue when saving path with char "\201" into database

[evertramos]

Hi there!

I have the following files (fresh Laravel 8.x):

• Migration:

class CreateSpecialsTable extends Migration
{
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('specials', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->id();
            $table->string('special', 255);
            $table->timestamps();
        });
    }

• Model:

class Special extends Model
{
    use HasFactory;

    protected $fillable = ['special'];

• Route:

Route::get('/add', function() {
    $special = new \App\Models\Special();
    $special->special = "C:\op\2019\01\adm\term.pdf";
    $special->save();
});

And this gives me this error:

So I get and error due to "\201" char in my string... I noticed that is not a really Laravel issue (or is it?) because I tested in pure PHP and it also get trouble to read the \201, because it interprets as ASCII, so, a way around was to use 'b', as my friend @brownst helped me out, so the following line would work:

     $special->special = b'"C:\op\2019\01\adm\term.pdf"';

But this is a work around for a very specific work... would someone comment this and let me know if Laravel has any treatment for that somehow?

I would really appreciate any comments.

I have tried a lot a things before posting anything, replace with regular slash, the addslash() function, but it really did not work out.