> > Have you checked to see if that filename is what you think it is on the > > Linux server? > > The character is shown as a question mark in putty. I've tried > forcing a UTF-8 font to make sure it's not a rendering issue but it > didn't seem to make a difference. I'm not convinced the encoding > changed, though. You say that in putty it is converted to a '?'? so, on linux, the file name is no longer what you intended it to be, so wouldn't you then need to call the file EXACTLY as it is on the linux server? maybe storing a non-utf8 filename is not the way to go? it looks to me, that if the filename was fileÃ.pdf on windose, and is now file?.pdf on linux, no matter how much encoding you're going to do, you will never be able to reference the file on linux with fileÃ.pdf as it is now file?.pdf maybe i am just talking out my ass here... i have a tendency to do that once in a while :) side note: I had a script that was ported from windose to linux, and the guy who created it, used capitals in his file names, but referred to them in all lower case. windose and apache didn't care, it would just serve the page... ThisPage.php was the same as thispage.php... when we moved it to linux, non of the damned links worked...so we had to do a bunch of changes... Steve -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php