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Asked: 2026-05-25T23:46:20+00:00

Our app allows users to upload video. I noticed, as soon as someone uploads

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Our app allows users to upload video.

I noticed, as soon as someone uploads a video with “é” in the file name, the video doesn’t play.

For example “fooébar.flv”. Question is. Should I be saving file names with those characters or should I filter out those chars? Otherwise, should I find a way for my player to play file names with non-ASCII characters?

I am using JWPlayer, to play the media on our site by the way.

EDIT

I followed http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player/jw-player-for-flash-v5/16002/embedding-with-international-characters which seems to work with:

encodeURIComponent(encodeURI("path_to_file"))
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  1. Editorial Team

    As per ops request in the comments:

    I would let them save with non-ascii characters, you don’t want to make it harder for your users to upload.

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