<p>This was a bug and has now been fixed in Craft 3.5.12.1</p>
<p><a href="https://github.com/craftcms/cms/issues/6923" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/craftcms/cms/issues/6923</a></p>

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2020-10-04T08:48:12.810Z
2020-10-04T08:48:12.810Z
Sanbo
<p>Filenames with German special characters are not converted correctly with convertFilenamesToAscii, e.g. ä, ö, ü are converted in a, o, u in contrast to ae, oe, ue in slugs with limitAutoSlugsToAscii.</p>

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German special characters like umlauts (ä, ö, ü) are not converted correctly with convertFilenamesToAscii
# German special characters like umlauts (ä, ö, ü) are not converted correctly with convertFilenamesToAscii

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-09-28)

Filenames with German special characters are not converted correctly with convertFilenamesToAscii, e.g. ä, ö, ü are converted in a, o, u in contrast to ae, oe, ue in slugs with limitAutoSlugsToAscii.

**Tags:** craft3, config, craft2


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_0 on 2020-10-04. Score: 3 | Accepted answer

This was a bug and has now been fixed in Craft 3.5.12.1

<https://github.com/craftcms/cms/issues/6923>


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