Re: Character encoding hell

On Oct 26, 2010, at 10:10 AM, Marc Guay wrote: >> A windows server, or windows client to the same Linux server? I believe that this issue is >> starting to get a bit over my head, with the different operating systems involved and such. > > Windows server. This is over my head, too. I'm guessing that Windows > and Linux encode filenames differently and when I transferred the file > from one to the other, some kind of adjustment was made. > > Marc I think one way to do this is something like this (untested): 1. Put all of your files in some directory on the server. 2. Change your <a href="http://example.com/encoded-file-name.pdf">my file</a> to <a href="http://example.com/download-file.php?fileID=xxx">my file</a> where xxx is the urlencoded version of "encoded-file-name.pdf". (xxx could also be a fileID number if stored in a database.) 3. In download-file.php do something like this: <?php $parent_directory = "/path/to/parent/directory/"; // can be in or out of web root if (file_exists($parent_directory . "encoded-file-name.pdf")) { $data = file_get_contents($parent_directory . "encoded-file-name.pdf"); $file_name_with_french_chars = rawurldecode("encoded-file-name.pdf"); header("Content-type: application/octet-stream"); header("Content-disposition: Attachment; filename=\"$file_name_with_french_chars\""); // this line assigns the "nice" looking name as the file name echo $data; } ?>