Filenames with non-ascii letters

Let’s start off with a quick question! Can you spot the difference between the two rows below? /images/räksmörgås.jpg /images/räksmörgås.jpg I couldn’t. My browser however insisted that there was no “räksmörgås.jpg” on the webserver – a file that from my point of view clearly was there. Since the error only occurred with filenames containing the letters å,ä & ö I at first suspected that there was an issue with mixing up UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1, however, this wasn’t the case. ...

May 21, 2018 · 2 min · 363 words · evh

Filenames with non-ascii letters

Let’s start off with a quick question! Can you spot the difference between the two rows below? /images/räksmörgås.jpg /images/räksmörgås.jpg I couldn’t. My browser however insisted that there was no “räksmörgås.jpg” on the webserver – a file that from my point of view clearly was there. Since the error only occurred with filenames containing the letters å,ä & ö I at first suspected that there was an issue with mixing up UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1, however, this wasn’t the case. ...

May 21, 2018 · 2 min · 363 words · evh