Re: Use of special characters in filenames results in IE problems
| From: | Dan Lowe | Date: | Fri, 20 Apr 2001 21:33:22 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Use of special characters in filenames results in IE problems | ||
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rawurlencode() - http://php.net/rawurlencode
<?php
$str = 'Oplæg';
print $str . '<br>';
$enc = rawurlencode($str);
print $enc . '<br>';
?>
-dan
Previously, Floyd Piedad said:
>
> I discovered a bug in my program for uploading files, which stores the
> filename in the database in order to create a link for it on the web page in
> the future. The bug is when the filename makes use of special characters
> (e.g. Oplæg). When I create a link to the file, the link works with
> Netscape. With IE however, it says that file is not found. I discovered that
> if I use the "encoded" version of the file name ("Opl%e6g") it works on
> both
> IE and Netscape. What function or code is used to convert to this format?
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