Title: Encoding Problem?
Last modified: October 7, 2016

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# Encoding Problem?

 *  [Thomas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thiomas/)
 * (@thiomas)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-problem-21/)
 * Hi Jordy,
    There seems to be a problem with German Umlauts (possibly with other
   special characters too, but I haven’t tested them). I use the IPTC Title as filename.
   When the title contains an umlaut, and the image is uploaded throught WP/LR Sync,
   there is no preview in the WordPress media library, and the image will not display,
   when placed in a post. (If I upload files with umlauts manually, there is no 
   problem.) In WP/LR settings, “Skip Sanitation” is enabled. If I disable it, the
   preview is fine, the image will display in a post – but the file name is corrupted(
   all umlauts are replaced with “cc88”). I then switched on the debugging tools
   and had a look at the Linked List. Here the correct name is listed. Example: 
   IPTC Title: Knödel If Skip Sanitation is disabled: File Name: kncc88del.jpg Item
   in List Linked: [lr_file] => Knödel.jpg Image will display in WordPress. If Skop
   Sanitation is enabled: File Name: knödel.jpg Item in List Linked [lr_file] =>
   Knödel.jpg Image will not display in WordPress I’m using WP/LR Sync since a while
   and I’m sure it worked well before with umlauts. I’m not sure since when the 
   problems occurs. Please advise. Thanks, Thomas

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## Tags

 * [encoding](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/encoding/)
 * [filename](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/filename/)
 * [umlauts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/umlauts/)

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 * Last reply from: [Thomas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thiomas/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-problem-21/)
 * Status: not resolved