Mor1arty stops the uploader from scrambling non-English filenames
A small patch fixes a bug that quietly corrupted any uploaded file whose name used characters outside the basic English alphabet.
When a user uploads a document, the file-handling layer in many web apps reads the filename using an old text encoding that only understands plain English letters and numbers. Anything outside that range - accented European characters, Chinese, Arabic, and so on - gets garbled before the application ever stores or displays it. Mor1arty's change catches the mangled name, reconstructs the original characters, and hands the app the real filename. Plain English filenames are untouched, so nothing else changes.
It's a narrow fix - one file, a handful of lines - but it closes a gap that would bite any firm whose clients and matters don't live entirely in English.
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