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    copied!<p>I'm trying to URL-escape (percent-encode) non-ascii characters in several URLs I'm dealing with. I'm working with a flash application that loads resources like images and sound clips from these URLs. Since the filenames can contain non-ascii characters, like so: <code>日本語.jpg</code> I escape them by utf-8 encoding the characters, and then percent-escaping the unicode bytes, to get the following:</p> <p><code>%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E8%AA%9E.jpg</code></p> <p>These filenames work fine when I run the app in any browser other than Internet Explorer - I've tried Firefox, Safari and Chrome. But when I launch the app in IE (tried both 6 and 8) and it tries to load the sound clip, I get: <code>Error #2044: Unhandled ioError</code>, and the URL has been corrupted to something like:</p> <p><code>æ¥æ¬èª.jpg</code></p> <p>Any thoughts on how to fix this? This is just test-driving the flash app with local filesystem URLs. I've also noticed that Internet explorer isn't able to locate a file such as: <code>file:///C:/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E8%AA%9E.jpg</code>, though Chrome / Firefox will decode it and load just fine for a file with the path</p> <p><code>C:\日本語.jpg</code></p> <p><em>edit</em></p> <p>I think my problem is the same as the one encountered in the following ActionScript code fragment:</p> <pre><code>import flash.display.Loader; import flash.net.URLRequest; ... var ldr:Loader; var req:URLRequest = new URLRequest("日本語.jpg"); ldr = new Loader(); ldr.load(req); </code></pre> <p>Using the string <code>日本語.jpg</code> will work in IE, while using the string <code>%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E8%AA%9E.jpg</code> works in other browsers. What I need is a single form that will work in all browsers. I have tried the <code>%u</code> encoding and setting the http request header to <code>Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8</code> with no luck in either percent-escaped or unescaped form.</p>
 

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