diff --git a/backend/app/routers/files.py b/backend/app/routers/files.py
index 0b1adc0..803e647 100644
--- a/backend/app/routers/files.py
+++ b/backend/app/routers/files.py
@@ -13,7 +13,9 @@ The same four endpoints exist under /proforma. Bytes live in MinIO
 Both invoice and proforma uploads are allowed in every quote status (the
 user can attach the invoice from the edit page at any time).
 """
+import os
 import uuid
+from urllib.parse import quote
 
 from fastapi import APIRouter, Depends, File, Response, UploadFile
 from sqlalchemy.ext.asyncio import AsyncSession
@@ -34,6 +36,26 @@ ALLOWED_EXTENSIONS = {".png", ".jpg", ".jpeg", ".webp", ".gif", ".pdf"}
 MAX_FILE_SIZE_BYTES = 5 * 1024 * 1024
 
 
+def _content_disposition(file_name: str) -> str:
+    """Header-safe Content-Disposition for non-ASCII (e.g. Persian) filenames.
+
+    HTTP headers are encoded as latin-1, so a Persian name raises
+    UnicodeEncodeError and kills the response. Per RFC 6266 / RFC 5987 the
+    UTF-8 name goes percent-encoded in ``filename*``, with an ASCII fallback
+    in ``filename`` for old clients.
+    """
+    raw = file_name.encode("ascii", "ignore").decode("ascii")
+    # keep the fallback header-safe: no quotes, no control characters
+    fallback = "".join(ch for ch in raw if ch >= " " and ch != '"').strip()
+    ext = os.path.splitext(file_name)[1]
+    stem = fallback[: -len(ext)].strip() if ext and fallback.lower().endswith(ext.lower()) else fallback
+    if not stem or not any(ch.isalnum() for ch in stem):
+        # nothing meaningful survived ASCII-folding (e.g. a pure-Persian
+        # name): use a generic attachment name that keeps the extension
+        fallback = f"attachment{ext}" if ext else "attachment"
+    return f"attachment; filename=\"{fallback}\"; filename*=UTF-8''{quote(file_name)}"
+
+
 async def _quote_or_404(db: AsyncSession, quote_id: uuid.UUID) -> Quote:
     quote = await db.get(Quote, quote_id)
     if quote is None:
@@ -92,7 +114,7 @@ async def download_invoice(quote_id: uuid.UUID, attachment_id: uuid.UUID, db: As
         content=content,
         media_type=attachment.mime_type,
         headers={
-            "Content-Disposition": f'attachment; filename="{attachment.file_name}"',
+            "Content-Disposition": _content_disposition(attachment.file_name),
             "X-File-Id": str(attachment.id),
         },
     )
@@ -137,7 +159,7 @@ async def download_proforma(quote_id: uuid.UUID, attachment_id: uuid.UUID, db: A
         content=content,
         media_type=attachment.mime_type,
         headers={
-            "Content-Disposition": f'attachment; filename="{attachment.file_name}"',
+            "Content-Disposition": _content_disposition(attachment.file_name),
             "X-File-Id": str(attachment.id),
         },
     )