How to generate valid filename with unicode characters for download?

Asked Mar 16 '14 at 09:48

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I add Content-Disposition header to generate filename for download.

self.response.headers['Content-Type'] = 'text/xml'
self.response.headers['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename=' + os.path.splitext(filename)[0] + '.nfo'

It works well with English characters, but when the filename contains Russian characters (for ex., filename = u'Some video file (2014).avi') it fails. I tried different combinations of encode('utf-8') and urllib.quote, but it doesn't help.

asked Mar 16 '14 at 09:48

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Short answer: There is no interoperable way, as [browser compatibility is a mess](http://greenbytes.de/tech/tc2231/) – Lukas Graf Mar 16 '14 at 09:53
Thanks, @LukasGraf. But what is about URL-encoding? Should I URL-encode the filename? – LA_ Mar 16 '14 at 11:06
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In the `Content-Disposition` header field? No. As part of the URL, yes. – Lukas Graf Mar 16 '14 at 16:46

How to generate valid filename with unicode characters for download?

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