There's a couple of areas where you could be bit by encodings in this chain -- percent-encoding, HTML_entities, and Linux/Windows issues. That you are also rolling a web server into the mix does not simplify the issue. Did you perform the ord test I described before? The working accented link is resolved by the browser as 
http://www.1604.ca/espanol/images/n%C3%BAmero.png

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which means you're using UTF codepoint U+00FA, or 250. This is possibly subject to some major high-bit code page malarkey. What happens when you run 
perl -le 'print -e sprintf "n%smero.png", chr 250'

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in the target directory? Usually, this sort of problem comes down to figuring out where you've forgotten to encode/decode a string. My copy of perl 5.8.9 handles this just fine.

#11929 First ask yourself `How would I do this without a computer?' Then have the computer do it the same way.

In reply to Re^3: -e not working Perl 5.008008 by kennethk
in thread -e not working Perl 5.008008 by GLJSD

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