Filenames do not get utf-8 encoded, so images fail to show

I've just taken over maintaining this module, and am clearing out the issue queue.

Is this bug still occuring?

I'm not actively supporting the 4.7.x version, so I'd be especially interested if you could test the 5.x version, but I realise you may have lost interest by now!

I've confirmed that this problem still occurs in drupal 5 by trying to upload files with utf8 characters in them. In order to get upload of files with utf8 characters working from image.module itself, the transliteration module needs to be installed.

However, despite doing this, with gallery remote 1.5.1-b42, the image looks as though it is uploading, but when it has uploaded, there is no image and the characters in the title appear to be HTML encoded. This is somewhat different from the problem posted here. With f-spot 0.4.3.1, "The file was received, but could not be processed or added to the album" and no image appears in drupal.

Just looked at the Gallery Remote Protocol:

In G1, the encoding used for the data is more or less unspecified, so it is recommended to use HTML entities to encode non-ASCII characters. In G2, however, UTF-8 is always used, so plain text should be used for all strings (no HTML entities or escaping, except the escaping necessary for the Java properties file format).

This explains the HTML code behaviour. It also suggests that tackling #205535: Gallery Remote: Module incompatible with latest GR protocol should be done before returning to this bug.

I've marked #275738: problems with non standard characters as a duplicate of this bug.

If anyone is testing this, it would be good if you could apply the patch at #323160: Use forms api to create image node to see if it makes a difference.

I don't know if its related to this bug, but I've also noticed when using Gallery Remote with this module that album names do not get encoded correctly. UTF-8 album names on the site are shown in gibrish in Gallery Remote, and new albums created in Gallery Remote are shown as HTML entities on the site.

Thanks for adding the information about album names. I think that problems with album and image names are related. I'm working up to tackling #205535: Gallery Remote: Module incompatible with latest GR protocol in the hope that this will fix both problems.

There is now a patch at comment 4 of #205535: Gallery Remote: Module incompatible with latest GR protocol, which may fix this bug. Any feedback would be appreciated!

This seems to have been fixed for me by the patch mentioned above in 6.x, so I'm moving the issue to 6.x and marking it as fixed. I'm not planning to apply the above patch to 5.x, but if someone reworks it I would take a look at it.