Garbled characters may appear when uploading Chinese files.

clhome

4 months ago

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const form = new FormData();
form.append('file', fs.createReadStream(filePath), encodeURI(fileName));

• Selected Answer
  

  JessChowdhury

  Payload Team

  4 months ago

  To fix this issue, add the following property to the upload object in your payload.config:

  upload: {
      defParamCharset: 'utf-8',
  },

  Here is a little background as to why...

  Payload uses the express-fileupload package to manage uploads. By default, this package has defParamCharset set to latin1. However, we need a character set that supports Chinese i.e. utf-8.

  You have full control over the express-fileupload options with Payload, simply pass any valid properties to the upload object in your base payload.config.

  Note: here is the defParamCharset definition from express-fileupload:
  

  4 replies
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  clhome

  4 months ago

  Thank you very much, the problem is solved, this problem has been bothering me for a long time.

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  RiceeeChang

  last month

  [10:29:56] INFO (payload): Starting Payload...
  [10:29:57] ERROR (payload): There were 1 errors validating your Payload config
  [10:29:57] ERROR (payload): 1: Collection "media" > "upload.defParamCharset" is not allowed

  Why apear these error messages, after I change the config?

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  JessChowdhury

  Payload Team

  last month

  Hi @RiceeeChang - you don't need to add defParamCharset to your uploads collection config, instead it needs to be added to your payload.config.ts. If you remove it from your media collection, and add it into the payload.config, the error should go away.

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  RiceeeChang

  last month

  thanks,

  The problem is solved, and the fileupload with chinese filename is working well.

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  JessChowdhury

  Payload Team

  4 months ago

  Hey @clhome, I'm looking into this now 🔎