[users@httpd] Re: Encodings, languages and filenames

["Johan R.-Ericson" <jo...@gmail.com>]

On 05/10/06, Johan R.-Ericson <jo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> I apologise if this is an FAQ but I've tried finding an answer to this
> question with the usual suspects (google, FAQs, mailing list archives) but
> no such luck [granted, I may have unknowingly already stumbled across the
> answer...].
>
> I am having trouble with getting filenames to reproduce correctly when
> uploading and later downloading from an Apache 2.0.55  (set with UTF-8 as
> default) server on a Linux SLES 9 server.  I am using a simple PHP script to
> upload the files, and generate an index.html page with a link to the
> uploaded file.
>
> This works fine as long as i stick to 7-bit ascii character filenames. As
> soon as i start using charcters outside of that range I'm in trouble. I'm
> currently testing swedish and chinese characters. The upload works OK. I can
> see the files in the filesystem (represented correctly). Also, the filename
> in the index.html file is correctly reproduced. However once I point my
> browser to the index.html file my problem appears. If I simply click on
> the link to the file (a jpg/png/bmp/gif file) it is downloaded to my client
> but with a garbled name (I'm assuming the byte-code representation of the
> UTF-8 characters). If I right click and choose "save link as" / "save target
> as" then the filename is represented correctly.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to what is happening and how to
> resolve it?
>
> TIA,
> Johan
>

Hi again,

digging into this issue some more I found that the Tomcat server has a
configuration option that seems to deal with this : URIEncoding

I could not find a similar option for the httpd server, does anyone have any
further information? Maybe I should post this as a question on the developer
list?

Regards,
Johan