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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="&#xE4;und&#xF6und&#xFC;.txt">äundöundü.txt</a>
....doesn't seem to work either.

Am I missing something?

jb wrote:
> 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="&#xE4;und&#xF6und&#xFC;.txt">äundöundü.txt</a>
> ...doesn't seem to work either.
>
> Am I missing something?
Try <a href="%E4und%F6und%FC.txt">äundöundü.txt</a>
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Edwin van der Vaart wrote:
>
> 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>
--
Edwin van der Vaart
http://www.semi-conductor.nl/ Links to Semiconductors sites
http://www.evandervaart.nl/ Under construction

Edwin van der Vaart wrote:

> Edwin van der Vaart wrote:

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

> 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-, and make sure the server includes that information in the HTTP
response header.

--
David Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/> <http://dorward.me.uk/>
Home is where the ~/.bashrc is

Edwin van der Vaart wrote:
> jb wrote:
>
>> 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="&#xE4;und&#xF6und&#xFC;.txt">äundöundü.txt</a>
>> ...doesn't seem to work either.
>>
>> Am I missing something?
>
> Try <a href="%E4und%F6und%FC.txt">äundöundü.txt</a>

That works. Many thank you's

David Dorward wrote:
> Edwin van der Vaart wrote:
>>Edwin van der Vaart wrote:
>
>>>Try <a href="%E4und%F6und%FC.txt">äundöundü.txt</a>
>
>>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-, 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.
--
Edwin van der Vaart
http://www.semi-conductor.nl/ Links to Semiconductors sites
http://www.evandervaart.nl/ Under construction

Edwin van der Vaart wrote:

>> No need to use numberic character references for unicode characters -
>> just save the document in a character encoding that supports the
>> characters (like UTF-, 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.

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.

--
David Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/> <http://dorward.me.uk/>
Home is where the ~/.bashrc is

David Dorward wrote:
> Edwin van der Vaart wrote:
>
>
>>>No need to use numberic character references for unicode characters -
>>>just save the document in a character encoding that supports the
>>>characters (like UTF-, 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.
>
> 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.

>>Upload to the webhost server and whalla it works great.
>
> So long as the server tells the browser what character encoding was used.
You're right.
--
Edwin van der Vaart
http://www.semi-conductor.nl/ Links to Semiconductors sites
http://www.evandervaart.nl/ Under construction

> <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>

>
>> <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>

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