[Mediawiki-l] Antwort: Images with accented characters

christoph.huesler at css.ch christoph.huesler at css.ch
Fri Nov 3 13:47:28 UTC 2006


Which version of MediaWiki are you using?

There was a bug with filename encoding on windows servers in 
mediawiki-1.8.1. If you are using this version, you should upgrade to 
1.8.2.

HTH
chris

mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org schrieb am 03.11.2006 10:40:05:

> I have MediaWiki installed and working on a Windows Server.
> 
> But I have a problem with images that have accented characters in the 
name.
> 
> This is what happens:
> 1. I upload a image with a special character, like: façade.gif
> 2. MediaWiki assumes this name: Façade.gif
> 3. In the file system, it is saved as: Façade.gif
> 4. In MediaWiki, in the details page for the image, the link is:
> http://pegasus/wiki/uploads/c/c1/Fa%C3%A7ade.gif
> 5. When I follow this link, I get HTTP Error 404
> 
> For images with only ASCII characters in the name, there is no problem.
> 
> Although I searched a lot, I couldn't find any information or post about
> this.
> 
> I'd appreciate any help. Thanks!
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