Title: Unicode/UTF problems
Last modified: June 17, 2021

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# Unicode/UTF problems

 *  [trotynn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trotynn/)
 * (@trotynn)
 * [4 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unicode-utf-problems/)
 * This plugin works great, but I have had some problems with filenames containing
   non-ASCII characters, which have been converted to different characters, thus
   making the links (both in the media library and in pages and posts) point to 
   the wrong location. At least these two are problematic:
 * å (U+00E5) being converted to å (U+0061 and U+030A)
    ï (U+00EF) being converted
   to ï (U+0069 and U+0308)

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 *  Plugin Author [erolsk8](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erolsk8/)
 * (@erolsk8)
 * [4 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unicode-utf-problems/#post-14567115)
 * Wow, that’s so strange.
 * Thank you for the great details! I’ll try to figure it out when I find some time.
 *  Thread Starter [trotynn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trotynn/)
 * (@trotynn)
 * [4 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unicode-utf-problems/#post-14567176)
 * I have found some more examples:
    Å (U+00C5) being converted to Å (U+0041 and
   U+030A) ö (U+00F6) being converted to ö (U+006F and U+0308)
 *  Thread Starter [trotynn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trotynn/)
 * (@trotynn)
 * [4 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unicode-utf-problems/#post-14570004)
 * Thanks for the quick reply! After looking more into it, I’m not entirely sure
   if it is Media Sync’s fault or just some other part of my WordPress installation.
   The links in my media library point to the wrong filenames (thus only grey boxes
   show up there), while the link directly from media sync (“Already in …”) actually
   shows me the correct filename and links to the file.
 *  Plugin Author [erolsk8](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erolsk8/)
 * (@erolsk8)
 * [4 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unicode-utf-problems/#post-14570018)
 * Have you tried uploading that same file through WP Media Library?
 *  Thread Starter [trotynn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trotynn/)
 * (@trotynn)
 * [4 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unicode-utf-problems/#post-14570048)
 * I am not sure how it was originally done when the site was created, but as of
   now I am having trouble uploading through the Media Library (probably due to 
   some weird file permission issues), so I have resorted to uploading through FTP
   and syncing with Media Sync as a temporary solution.
 *  Plugin Author [erolsk8](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erolsk8/)
 * (@erolsk8)
 * [4 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unicode-utf-problems/#post-14570107)
 * I see, well, my guess is that you would have the same issue if you used Media
   Library, because this plugin uses those same functions for import.
 * But until I’m able to find some time to look into this, I don’t really have a
   solution. Maybe to somehow rename all those files (and their database records)
   to strip all those special characters (e.g. ö -> o). Maybe just google “remove
   special characters from wordpress upload files”. Or I should make a plugin for
   that as well 😀
 * I mean file titles can keep special characters, but I don’t think it makes sense
   to keep them in file names, it just causes weird issues.
 *  Thread Starter [trotynn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trotynn/)
 * (@trotynn)
 * [4 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unicode-utf-problems/#post-14570136)
 * As of now, I’m just renaming my picture links manually as a workaround. Thanks
   for the help anyway!
 *  Plugin Author [erolsk8](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erolsk8/)
 * (@erolsk8)
 * [4 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unicode-utf-problems/#post-14757080)
 * Hey [@trotynn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trotynn/), it’s been ages,
   but I finally got to test this again. So if you’re still interested, you can 
   check out if these comments I just made would be helpful:
 * * [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filenames-with-diacritics-not-recognized/#post-14756533](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filenames-with-diacritics-not-recognized/#post-14756533)
   *
   [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filenames-with-diacritics-not-recognized/#post-14757060](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filenames-with-diacritics-not-recognized/#post-14757060)
 * I also tried adding your special characters (å and ï) and it also worked.
 * Basically, collation of these database tables: `wp_posts` and `wp_postmeta` need
   to support characters that exist in file name.

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## Tags

 * [conversion](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/conversion/)
 * [unicode](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/unicode/)
 * [UTF](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/utf/)

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 * Last reply from: [erolsk8](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erolsk8/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unicode-utf-problems/#post-14757080)
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