diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 12d2439..57faa76 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 codebird-php - changelog
 ========================
 
+2.6.1 (2014-12-13)
+- #90 Allow uploading media with special chars
+
 2.6.0 (2014-10-12)
 + #67 Don't require cURL, allow stream connections too
 + Use default timeout
diff --git a/bower.json b/bower.json
index 20c0b03..f543b74 100644
--- a/bower.json
+++ b/bower.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "codebird-php",
-  "version": "2.6.0",
+  "version": "2.6.1",
   "homepage": "http://www.jublo.net/projects/codebird/php",
   "authors": [
     "Joshua Atkins <joshua.atkins@jublo.net>",
diff --git a/src/codebird.php b/src/codebird.php
index b31de70..e89df14 100644
--- a/src/codebird.php
+++ b/src/codebird.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  * A Twitter library in PHP.
  *
  * @package   codebird
- * @version   2.6.0
+ * @version   2.6.1
  * @author    Jublo Solutions <support@jublo.net>
  * @copyright 2010-2014 Jublo Solutions <support@jublo.net>
  * @license   http://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-3.0 GNU General Public License 3.0
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ class Codebird
     /**
      * The current Codebird version
      */
-    protected $_version = '2.6.0';
+    protected $_version = '2.6.1';
 
     /**
      * Auto-detect cURL absence
@@ -1091,18 +1091,20 @@ protected function _buildMultipart($method, $params)
 
             // check for filenames
             if (in_array($key, $possible_files)) {
+                // the file system does not know about UTF-8 filenames
+                $filename_decoded = utf8_decode($value);
                 if (// is it a file, a readable one?
-                    @file_exists($value)
-                    && @is_readable($value)
+                    @file_exists($filename_decoded)
+                    && @is_readable($filename_decoded)
 
                     // is it a valid image?
-                    && $data = @getimagesize($value)
+                    && $data = @getimagesize($filename_decoded)
                 ) {
                     // is it a supported image format?
                     if (in_array($data[2], $this->_supported_media_files)) {
                         // try to read the file
                         ob_start();
-                        readfile($value);
+                        readfile($filename_decoded);
                         $data = ob_get_contents();
                         ob_end_clean();
                         if (strlen($data) === 0) {