Re: Character encoding hell

On Oct 26, 2010, at 10:56 AM, Marc Guay wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've got a problem with character encoding that's threatening to kill > my little brain. Here we go: > > I have a directory with a bunch of PDFs in it that my webpage displays > links to. All of the files have the french character  in them. The > operating system is Linux (I did not experience this problem on a > Windows machine). I don't want to type the display name of these files > twice and the website has no database capability so it takes the > filename, rips off the extension, and runs htmlentities() on it before > displaying to the user. So far so good. Now to the anchor's href. > The only encoding method I found which creates a proper link to the > file is rawurlencode(), but the catch is that the filename isn't user > friendly at all. My question then is what is the best solution to > this problem? Ideally I would like the link to function and for the > filename to be readable. > > Any hope/help is appreciated. > > Marc > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > Are you using UTF-8?