Cc8a on Gustav Ernberg von Heijne

Filenames with non-ascii letters

Mon, 21 May 2018 21:23:00 +0000

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.

Filenames with non-ascii letters

Mon, 21 May 2018 21:23:00 +0000

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.