Special characters in filename

[Limotek]

Hi all,

I am trying to link to the following filename:

uk-high-street-banks-own-£95bn-assets-that-could-qualify-for-us-financial-package.php

If I try to follow a link to the above, I get a page not found error "The requested URL /treasury-must-guarantee-�40bn-of-assets-to-sell-off-Bradford-and-Bingley.php was not found on this server."

In order to get this to work, I am replacing the '£' symbol for £ which seems to work fine when I upload to my server.

The problem is that this link doesn't work in my WAMP localhost environment and instead I get the error "Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0"

Can anyone please tell me the correct way to replace £ symbol for use in URLs.

[AutisticCuckoo]

Try uk-high-street-banks-own-%A395bn-assets-that-could-qualify-for-us-financial-package.php

[Limotek]

Hi, Thanks for the fast reply.

I tried using %A3 instead but now I get a 404 Forbidden error page on my WAMP server. If I upload to main server, %A3 works.

Do you think there's a setting in my WAMP config to allow these types of URL?

[logic_earth]

Use better URLs? I go cross eye trying to read that long long long file name...

[Limotek]

Hi logic_earth. The reason I've made the filename long is because it is an article of which I have hundreds. The article title is derived from the url and so it needs to be like this.

I'm pretty convinced this is a problem with a setting in my WAMP server as everything works fine when I upload to my main server. If I type in the url directly for WAMP, the same error message appears so it can't be a problem with the link itself.