Title: UNICODE/UTF character issues after migration
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# UNICODE/UTF character issues after migration

 *  [heffleyboy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heffleyboy/)
 * (@heffleyboy)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unicodeutf-character-issues-after-migration/)
 * Hello, I’m having some issues with a couple hundred image files after I took 
   over a website, and migrated to a new server.
 * So I’ve realized that all of the file names that included special characters,
   such as
 * ü
 * have now been rendered broken links. I checked quite a few, and see that the 
   images are being linked just as they were eg; /uploads/2015/10/blabla_ü_.jpg
 * I’ve confirmed that this file exists, but its filename is eg; /uploads/2015/10/
   blabla_#U00fc_.jpg
 * I would have thought that the browser/server would decode this to understand 
   that ü = #U00fc but apparently not.
 * Whats even more strange, is that when I try to access the file directly, using
   the filemanager thru cPanel I can download it, but I can’t load it via its direct
   link URL. I’ve even tried changing manually the img src link to reflect the ‘#
   U00fc’ instead of special characters, but no luck either.
 * I’m sorta stumped…..appreciate any ideas. Maybe I’ve missed something easy or
   dumb. haha

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 * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/)
 * [special-characters](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/special-characters/)
 * [unicode](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/unicode/)
 * [utf-8](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/utf-8/)

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 * Last reply from: [heffleyboy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heffleyboy/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unicodeutf-character-issues-after-migration/)
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