Take the 2-minute tour ×  I don't know if this is expected
behavior or not, but if I create a project with a single model
with an ImageField field and upload a photo with the filename
"árvórés", the uploaded file is saved with an incomprehensible
filename(ascii, I presume). As a direct result, that photo
becomes impossible to retrieve from the site.  Is this normal?
If yes, then how to allow those types of filenames?
share|improve this question ASCII is rarely that
incomprehensible. What filename are you getting, exactly? – 
jcdyer Jan 18 '10 at 20:52 From an image filename "árvóré", I
get "Ã¡rvÃ³rÃ©" –  Ricardo B. Jan 18 '10 at 21:12 Yeah that
dodgy Ã is usually a char-encoding issue. –  Oli Jan 18 '10 at
21:22  1 Answer 1  The issue is that you haven't specified how
the POST data should be encoded by the browser, and subsequently
you are getting whatever the browser has guessed it should use -
usually ISO-8859-1 instead of Unicode (UTF-8).  The HTML 4.01
spec for the FORM element includes the "accept-chars