using i18n characters in url of image tag does not display the image

Question

I am using the image tag as

<image src="/data/image/image.txt" />

the path /data/image/image.txt does exists.

and it displays the image also.

but when i introduce some i18n characters in the path lets say

<image src="/data/image组织/image.txt" />

it says 404 error image not found, but the path /data/image组织/image.txt does exists,

please help me to find the solution for this?

I used the firebug also to see whether the characters are decoded properly or not, in firebug I am able to see the correct characters they are not changed, still it is not able to pick the image.

thanks a lot in advance.

Note: I am using <image> tag because it was not allowing me to write the img tab in the post, and i have changed the jif ext to txt.

please consider this.

Answer 1

Unicode characters ARE legal in the portion of the URL you're putting them in, so you have a problem somewhere else - probably on your web server. Check your web server logs to make sure that the 404 that is issued is for the URL you think you're requesting on the web browser side - you may find that there's a mismatch in the encoding that the browser uses and the way that the server parses it (if your server is capable of serving up an internationalized URI in the first place). Keep in mind that your filesystem also needs to support unicode and your web server needs to respect your filesystem encoding.

Also, since you didn't make it clear that you were using unicode (which would be the "easy" way), non-unicode characters are also legal but the situation is a lot trickier. Once you start introducing non-unicode character sets like Shift-JIS, you massively increase the number of tools that need to understand and not screw up your character encoding along the way.