Question

Files having names with spaces in them (like "Test File.doc") simply disappear when uploaded through WebDAV.

And the second problem are special chars in filenames (Umlauts) - this is serious, because we have several umlauts in Germany. The non ASCII chars are displayed wrong in TWiki when uploaded with WebDAV, and the versioning doesn't take place. The WebDAV folder on the other hand displays the file correctly. Where do I have to search for a solution?

More to the umlaut problem:

- When I upload a umlaut-named file via TWiki-Upload, it is shown correctly in the attachment table. But it is shown with "%f6" or something instead of the umlaut "ö" when viewed via the WebDAV folder. And so, it's also not editable from the WebDAV folder.

- The other way around (uploading the file via WebDAV) the file is displayed correctly in the WebDAV folder but not in TWiki.

So I think there should be some charset options or something related to WebDAV. But there are many places where they can happen (TWiki, the module, Apache, Linux system) and I don't know where to look and what I have to change.

The "spaces in filename" problem is only with the WebDAV module. When I upload such a file with TWiki, the filename gets converted (" " are changed to "_").

Thanks for any help!

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-- JensHassler - 11 Jul 2006

Answer

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Sorry, but I never made any effort to support international character sets in the plugin or the associated apache module.

Spaces are not supported in the filenames of TWiki attachments or topic names. It would be pretty complex to apply the name changing rules in WebDav, because of the way the apache module works. Perhaps some day someone will make this work (I will not be doing it unless a client specifically funds it, I'm afraid)

-- CrawfordCurrie - 06 Aug 2006