or maybe just hexing non-ascii standard characters (leave _something_
readable in _some_ cases)....
would this work on latin character sets?

I mean would 'a' anywhere be encoded as '0x61'?

If so, that might be a human-useful thing.

2009/4/28 mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu>

>
> Let's say I upload a file called 漢.dat from a windows machine, how do
> I download it from a Unix machine? I just do not know different
> browsers and
> OSs will handle it and it may cause vulnerabilities. Anyway, I like
> the idea of hexing and it probably better than the current solution. I
> will try it later.
>
> Massimo
>
> On Apr 28, 2:14 pm, Yarko Tymciurak <yark...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > This solves the problem of storing it but not the problem of
> > > downloading a file with a fancy name. We would lose the ability to
> > > search the uploaded files by filename.
> >
> > Not if you ALWAYS store by uploaded filename, and have the stored name as
> a
> > field for retrieval only...
> >
> > Maybe I don't see the problem here...
> >
>

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