On Oct 26, 2010, at 11:38 AM, Marc Guay wrote: >> 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" I apologize for the vagueness. I was referring to the browser/php header or a meta tag. Something to the effect of this quick copy paste from a site that uses accent marks and umlauts: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> If I am understanding correctly, you are referring to a HTML specific issue where the HTML and browser configuration is displaying your characters improperly?