Article - CS38220
White "space" in a "Thumbnail File Name" is encoded as "%20" in FlexPLM
Modified: 08-Nov-2022
Applies To
- FlexPLM 9.2 to 12.0
Description
- FlexPLM encode document file names that contain non-ASCII characters due to operating system limitations in recognizing non-ASCII character set
- White space in a Thumbnail File Name is encoded as %20
- Thumbnails are mostly generated in FlexPLM for certain objects
- Products and Documents
- File names that contain non-ASCII characters cannot be used for Thumbnail generation due to limitations in Windows and UNIX Operating Systems
- It is required to convert file names to ASCII only characters so they are supported by Windows and Unix Operating Systems
- Consider an Example File Name: Minnesota - Dec2010.png
- This file will be stored on disk as Minnesota%20-%20Dec2010.png
- When the file name is passed on the URL, the file name is read from the disk is encoded as:
- Minnesota%2520-%2520Dec2010.png
- Where %25 is the encoding for the percent (%) character
- Minnesota%2520-%2520Dec2010.png
- File name which contains space gets converted into underscore whenever file uploaded for Product Thumbnail
- Example - File Name: Demo File Name.jpg
- After upload - File Name: Demo_File_Name.jpg
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