Linking to files with umlauted characters

[jb]

Given a file named äundöundü.txt on a server...

None of the following loads the file in Firefox or IE:

<a href="äundöundü.txt">äundöundü.txt</a>
<a href="äundöundü.txt">äundöundü.txt</a>
<a href="äundöundü.txt">äundöundü.txt</a>

Firefox loads the file if äundöundü.txt is typed directly into the URL
bar but the name is shown as %E4und%F6und%FC.txt.

<a href="äund&#xF6undü.txt">äundöundü.txt</a>
....doesn't seem to work either.

Am I missing something?

 

[Edwin van der Vaart]

Given a file named äundöundü.txt on a server...

None of the following loads the file in Firefox or IE:

<a href="äundöundü.txt">äundöundü.txt</a>
<a href="äundöundü.txt">äundöundü.txt</a>
<a href="äundöundü.txt">äundöundü.txt</a>

Firefox loads the file if äundöundü.txt is typed directly into the URL
bar but the name is shown as %E4und%F6und%FC.txt.

<a href="äund&#xF6undü.txt">äundöundü.txt</a>
...doesn't seem to work either.

Am I missing something?

Try <a href="%E4und%F6und%FC.txt">äundöundü.txt</a>

 

[Edwin van der Vaart]

Try <a href="%E4und%F6und%FC.txt">äundöundü.txt</a>

Ooops.
Instead of <a href="%E4und%F6und%FC.txt">äundöundü.txt</a>, it must be
<a href="%E4und%F6und%FC.txt">äundöundü.txt</a>

 

[David Dorward]

Edwin van der Vaart wrote:

Instead of <a href="%E4und%F6und%FC.txt">äundöundü.txt</a>, it must be
<a href="%E4und%F6und%FC.txt">äundöundü.txt</a>

No need to use numberic character references for unicode characters - just
save the document in a character encoding that supports the characters (lke
UTF-8), and make sure the server includes that information in the HTTP
response header.

 

[jb]

Try <a href="%E4und%F6und%FC.txt">äundöundü.txt</a>

That works. Many thank you's

 

[Edwin van der Vaart]

No need to use numberic character references for unicode characters - just
save the document in a character encoding that supports the characters (lke
UTF-8), and make sure the server includes that information in the HTTP
response header.

You mean save the document as *.txt with e.g. vi, gedit or notepad.
Upload to the webhost server and whalla it works great.

 

[David Dorward]

You mean save the document as *.txt with e.g. vi, gedit or notepad.

I mean what I said (except for the typo of "numeric"). For a start we're
talking about an HTML document, not a plain text file, and you have to
ensure that you editor uses a suitable character encoding.

Upload to the webhost server and whalla it works great.

So long as the server tells the browser what character encoding was used.

 

[Edwin van der Vaart]

Edwin van der Vaart wrote:




I mean what I said (except for the typo of "numeric"). For a start we're
talking about an HTML document, not a plain text file, and you have to
ensure that you editor uses a suitable character encoding.

Sorry about that. I thought you was referring to the text file.
Thanx for clearing that up.

So long as the server tells the browser what character encoding was used.

You're right.

 

[jb]

<a href="%E4und%F6und%FC.txt">äundöundü.txt</a>

Curiously, this does not work in IE6, but does in Firefox.

For IE6, it needs to be:
<a href="äundöundü.txt">äundöundü.txt</a>

 

[jb]

Curiously, this does not work in IE6, but does in Firefox.

For IE6, it needs to be:
<a href="äundöundü.txt">äundöundü.txt</a>

Actually, it was a charset problem. iso-8859-1 works for both; I was
using utf-8.