File name with special chars

Question

I'm using SwiftMailer and trying to add an attachment with special chars and spaces in it's filename. How can I add such a file, f.e. "Informationen für alle Mitglieder.pdf"?

I use this command:

$message->attach("resources/assets/docs/Informationen für alle Mitglieder.pdf");

...but I'm getting always an file not found error. When I replace all special chars, it works fine?

Is there any "decoding function" to make it work? For white spaces, I can replace them easily with "\x20" and it works. But what's about the other chars like "äöü"?

don't use filenames with whitespaces it was and will never be a good solution — donald123, Jul 02 '15 at 12:46
White spaces are not the problem, I can replace them with \x20 - but what's about "äöü". We have 2015, it's terrible that this is still a problem. — user2891491, Jul 02 '15 at 12:54

score 2 · Answer 1 · 2015-07-02T13:15:15.100

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$message->attach("resources/assets/docs/Informationen_fuer_alle_Mitglieder.pdf");

Just rename your .pdf. And don't take special characters and white spaces in your urls in future.

Maybe this is useful for you:

$string = "resources/assets/docs/Informationen für alle Mitglieder.pdf"
$string  = str_replace(' ', '%20', $string); // %20 means white space
$string  = str_replace('ü', '&uuml', $string); // %uuml means ü
echo $string;

EDIT2:

http://www.webspace-finden.de/html-php-ae-oe-ue-und-szett-zeichencodes/

Ä – & Auml;

ä – & auml;

Ö – & Ouml;

ö – & ouml;

Ü – & Uuml;

ü – & uuml;

remove white space behind "&" otherwise I couldn't show this

http://php.net/manual/de/function.urlencode.php

<?php
echo urlencode($string); >;
?>

EDIT3:

$string = "resources/assets/docs/Informationen%20f&uumlr%20alle%20Mitglieder.pdf"

edited Jul 02 '15 at 13:15

answered Jul 02 '15 at 12:51

Nope, I need the special chars. – user2891491 Jul 02 '15 at 12:53
remembered something I've added in my answer – Jul 02 '15 at 12:55
Yeah, that is for urls. For internal filenames I've to add "\x20" to replace white spaces. I've updated my question, because I've still problems with "äüö". – user2891491 Jul 02 '15 at 12:56
Hey Maurize, I'm sorry to say that it isn't working. urlencode() works for HTTP urls, "ä" and the others are for HTML. I need to encode that path to work with fopen("resources/assets/docs/Informationen für alle Mitglieder.pdf","r"); – user2891491 Jul 02 '15 at 14:06
then this will help you: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2216852/php-file-handling-special-characters-in-folder-names – Jul 02 '15 at 14:12
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1525830/how-do-i-use-filesystem-functions-in-php-using-utf-8-strings btw im german. – Jul 02 '15 at 14:43
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Why are you trying to escape for html though? I don't think this problem is anything to do with html – Phil Jul 03 '15 at 07:46

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 02 '15 at 19:18

Have you tried using the attach method correctly as per the documentation?

$message->attach(Swift_Attachment::fromPath('resources/assets/docs/Informationen für alle Mitglieder.pdf'));

Also, there is nothing wrong with spaces or extended ascii in filenames. There are not many operating systems which dont support it.

File name with special chars

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