Apache utf-8 characters in filename

Question

I can't figure it why I can't open files (photos as a start) that contain utf-8 characters in their file name.

For example, I have the following photo: José-Antonio.jpg , the browser outputs it as Jos%C3%A9-Antonio.jpg but trying to access it, will return an 404 error code.

I tried and have these settings in my /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf but don't seem to fix it:

#AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
AddDefaultCharSet ISO-8859-1

IndexOptions FancyIndexing VersionSort NameWidth=* HTMLTable Charset=UTF-8

Any ideas what could go wrong? And btw, it seams the system supports utf-8 encoding...

[root@u16641744 01]# locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

ls result in a directory containing such files:

-rw-r--r-- 1 user group   6093 Dec 22 17:39 Adoración-de-los-Magos-Botticelli-110x90.jpg

But the curios thing is that the output of the following command, is wrong:

perl -Mcharnames=:full -CS -wle 'print "\N{EURO SIGN}"'
  |-> outputs: â¬

Answer 1

Just so you know folks, I ended up re-installing the system. I would definitely say that the issue was from the host provider with its default install.

So yea, after hours and hours of trying to debug and fix this (I tried Apache tweaking, System encoding, File system checks, ...) ended up finally just installing a