Question

I have a UNIX server running. I have a program, that uploads images to my server.

but I’m having some problems with these chars: ø æ å

In my program I used

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">

Example:

I upload an image called påske.png

On my server I can see the picture is called påske.png

In my database, the name påske.png is also saved.

if I then manually tries to see my picture, I get an error

I type: www.myserver.com/uploads/påske.png

Error: /uploads/påske.png was not found on this server.

Answer 1

You shoulnd’t save the special chars direct as filename. Give them a new name like a timestamp or replace the spacial chars with the english equivalent.

What you have is normal then your server / Webserver has a default charset like UTF-8 for example. Special chars in Linux are displayed in this character Set.

Edit:

Replace special characters before the file is uploaded using PHP