Error message in Internet Explorer when you click a hyperlink that links to a file whose name contains UTF-8-encoded characters: "The page cannot be displayed"

Consider the following scenario. You use Windows Internet Explorer to visit a Web page. Then, you click a hyperlink on the Web page. In this scenario, you receive the following error message:Additionally, the Address bar may include some incorrect characters.

This issue occurs if the following conditions are true:

• The hyperlink is a uniform resource identifier (URI) that links to a file.
• The file name contains UTF-8-encoded characters.

In the URI, the UTF-8-encoded characters are interpreted as a byte according to the current codepage. The meaning of the UTF-8-encoded characters in non-US-ASCII varies, depending on the locale in which the document is viewed.

To work around this issue, do not use percent-encoded octets to represent non-US-ASCII characters. To represent a non-US-ASCII character, you must use that non-US-ASCII character directly in the encoding of the document in which you write the URI.

For more information, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

This behavior is by design.