Flash uploaders (Uploadify and SwfUpload) - problems with special characters in filenames?

Most likely the SWFObject input sends UTF8 encoded data, and the script on the server side handles them as ISO-8859-1. For a quick fix (if you work with PHP on the server side), try utf8_decode() on the incoming filename If I were you, I would think about simply filtering out all umlauts and converting them into their non-umlaut equivalents or "o", "a", "u". It makes life easier.

Most likely the SWFObject input sends UTF8 encoded data, and the script on the server side handles them as ISO-8859-1. For a quick fix (if you work with PHP on the server side), try utf8_decode() on the incoming filename. If I were you, I would think about simply filtering out all umlauts and converting them into their non-umlaut equivalents or "o", "a", "u".

It makes life easier.

1 for good idea on the character replacements! – Mark Redman Nov 18 '09 at 23:15 Well, us Krauts and Scandinavians, we have those every day... :) – Pekka Nov 18 '09 at 23:18.

Since flash is used in both cases, I assume that flash is either not decoding the filenames it reads in or encoding the filenames it posts (or both). One would need to open the flash . Fla file to check the decoding/encoding.

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