I am building a Wordpress site that is going to be multilingual (using WPML) and it will host a ton of resources in multiple languages - from Chinese to Russian to English, etc. We wanted to upload the files using the native languages filename and I was going to add a filter to sanitize_file_name to accomplish this. After some reading, I cannot find a good explanation of why this may not be a good idea.
My question is, why would this not be a good idea? Should I avoid this? What implications would it have if I allowed all characters to be used?
Thanks for your help!
sanitize_file_nameto what? You said to accomplish this this - what? Uploading different language's filename, to me, is not a problem. But, for critical glyphs like Chinese, Bengali they take more char-space than English, and for large filenames, they can be trimmed to incomplete wordings. But local filenames can be a good plus point for local SEO.sanstize_file_namebecause as of now, it adds dashes in the place of spaces and specific characters like those of Chinese file names. So, are you saying that it is not necessarily a bad idea? What about for the permalinks? Would it just add%to the characters that it does not recognize? How would that translate?hyphenis a very good separator and recommended. And I questioned about this sometime. You can avoid 404 for local filenames using a permalink ofexample.com/id/filename.