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Files with accentuated characters

Posted on June 12, 2014

Hi, I’m trying to migrate my site on DigitalOcean hosting, but I’m french and a lot of my wordpress media file names have accentuated characters.

I don’t know why, but when I transfer it with FTP, the accentuated characters are replaced by cabalistic ones…

Can you help me ?



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hello you might want to change to UTF-8 in your client

Please use SSH/SCP/SFTP/rsync-over-ssh instead of FTP: http://www.43folders.com/2008/07/14/dump-ftp

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