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After upgrading to NodeBB 4.6, Chinese filenames show as garbled text in the admin panel, while displaying correctly on the frontend.

​Issue:​​ Upload Chinese-named files → frontend shows correctly Admin panel displays random characters instead of Chinese text Works fine in NodeBB 4.2, broken after 4.6 upgrade

This appears to be a regression in filename encoding handling specific to the admin interface. The actual files work properly - only the display is affected.

Environment: Ubuntu, C.UTF-8 locale, MongoDB. Requesting investigation into this encoding issue that affects Chinese content management in the admin panel.

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[-] baris@community.nodebb.org 1 points 7 months ago

![截图.png](https://community.nodebb.org/assets/uploads/files/1761314038073-%C3%A6-%C2%AA%C3%A5.png) on this it looks like this and on the backend it looks like below. Not sure if it's supposed to be different.

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