Re: Character encoding hell

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On Oct 26, 2010, at 10:56 AM, Marc Guay wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> I've got a problem with character encoding that's threatening to kill
> my little brain.  Here we go:
> 
> I have a directory with a bunch of PDFs in it that my webpage displays
> links to.  All of the files have the french character  in them. The
> operating system is Linux (I did not experience this problem on a
> Windows machine). I don't want to type the display name of these files
> twice and the website has no database capability so it takes the
> filename, rips off the extension, and runs htmlentities() on it before
> displaying to the user.  So far so good.  Now to the anchor's href.
> The only encoding method I found which creates a proper link to the
> file is rawurlencode(), but the catch is that the filename isn't user
> friendly at all.  My question then is what is the best solution to
> this problem?  Ideally I would like the link to function and for the
> filename to be readable.
> 
> Any hope/help is appreciated.
> 
> Marc
> 
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