Server problems with æ ø å

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/pÃ¥ske.png was not found on this server.

hi. I don't know, since I am no longer using my own local apache server. I wrote to the people who run my server — Pavenhimself, Nov 02 '12 at 09:09

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

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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

edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

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answered Nov 02 '12 at 09:05

René Höhle

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Thanks for the reply and the advice. I think I will follow it. I tried this: $overskrift_tmp = preg_replace("/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/", "", $overskrift);. When I type in: etætoøtreå. I get this: etaeligtooslashtrearing. Can't i just get ettotre ? – Pavenhimself Nov 02 '12 at 09:24
Okay, the admin of my server told me just to avoid æ ø å, so I am using your suggestion :) Thank you – Pavenhimself Nov 02 '12 at 10:00

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 02 '12 at 09:28

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Alternatively you could use this class and change the file name during upload

* normal - converts each special character (áéíÁÈÒÖ) to their 
normal character (aeiAEOO)

string $class->normal(string string);

Example: 
print $strings->normal("faço áeéíàÒ");
# will output: faco aeeiaO

answered Nov 02 '12 at 09:28

classicjonesynz

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Thanks for reply. Could also have used this yes, but I got the other thing to work :) – Pavenhimself Nov 02 '12 at 10:01
No problem, glad you got it sorted – classicjonesynz Nov 02 '12 at 10:02

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 30 '13 at 14:32

Try this.

function de_danishify_filename_on_upload($filename) {
if("do a check") return $filename; // Checks to see if a string is utf8 encoded

$filter_chars = array(
    // Character mapping from UTF-8 characters to ASCII characters. 
    chr(195).chr(134) => 'AE',  // &AElig; to Ae
    chr(195).chr(166) => 'ae',  // &aelig; to ae
    chr(195).chr(152) => 'OE',  // &Oslash; to OE
    chr(195).chr(184) => 'oe',  // &oslash; to oe
    chr(195).chr(133) => 'AA',  // &Aring; to AA
    chr(195).chr(165) => 'aa'   // &aring; to aa
);
$translated = strtr($filename,$filter_chars); // Translate characters

return $translated;
}

Server problems with æ ø å

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