Issue with special characters (uploaded files)

Hello, I’m trying to import all medias files from a live website to my local wordpress site.

While all files get imported correctly using the built in wordpress importer, I’m facing a problem.

All files containing special characters in their names are troublesome.

While their URL and file name show corretly in the media library, the file name uploaded in the UPLOAD folder on the server contains errors : special characters are replaced by weird characters.

This leads to multiple problems :
– Thumbs do not display for those files in the media library
– Links are broken because, while the url corretly contains the special character, the real file name is replaced with other characters.

EXAMPLE :

– URL displayed for file in the media library (correct with an accent on the e letter) :
localhost/monsite/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/capture-décran.png

– Real file name uploaded in uploads/2018/08 : capture-d??cran.png

How to prevent this from happening ?

This happens whether i’m using WAMP or XAMPP local servers !

Thank you for all that can give a hand

• This topic was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by Astrix.