Garbled characters may appear when uploading Chinese files.

clhome

3 weeks ago

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

• Selected Answer
  

  JessChowdhury

  Payload Team

  3 weeks 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:
  

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  clhome

  3 weeks ago

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

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  JessChowdhury

  Payload Team

  3 weeks ago

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