> Are you using UTF-8? Could you be more specific? Do you mean in the browser/php header or in the filesystem? I created the file on a Windows machine, transferred them to a Linux machine, and the encoding of the page is UTF-8. I just noticed a strange thing which might shed some light. If I just run htmlentities() on the href, it shows this in the browser URL: LE CHÂT.pdf But the browser returns a "not found" error: LE%20CH%C3%82T.pdf It seems like the  character is being misunderstood as "Â" -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php