(browse-url-file-url): Encode file name on conversion to URL.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/net/browse-url.el b/lisp/net/browse-url.el
index 101b9cf210d..3f514a2aaab 100644
--- a/lisp/net/browse-url.el
+++ b/lisp/net/browse-url.el
@@ -680,6 +680,10 @@ interactively.  Turn the filename into a URL with function
 (defun browse-url-file-url (file)
   "Return the URL corresponding to FILE.
 Use variable `browse-url-filename-alist' to map filenames to URLs."
+  (let ((coding (and default-enable-multibyte-characters
+                     (or file-name-coding-system
+                         default-file-name-coding-system))))
+    (if coding (setq file (encode-coding-string file coding))))
   ;; URL-encode special chars, do % first
   (let ((s 0))
     (while (setq s (string-match "%" file s))