diff --git a/app/src/main/java/me/ash/reader/infrastructure/android/AndroidImageDownloader.kt b/app/src/main/java/me/ash/reader/infrastructure/android/AndroidImageDownloader.kt
index 6e51ddfb6..938daf528 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/me/ash/reader/infrastructure/android/AndroidImageDownloader.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/me/ash/reader/infrastructure/android/AndroidImageDownloader.kt
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import okhttp3.Request
 import okhttp3.Response
 import java.io.FileOutputStream
 import java.io.IOException
+import java.lang.Character
 import javax.inject.Inject
 import kotlin.io.path.Path
 import kotlin.io.path.createFile
@@ -36,8 +37,10 @@ class AndroidImageDownloader @Inject constructor(
             Request.Builder().url(imageUrl).build().runCatching {
                 okHttpClient.newCall(this).execute().run {
 
-                    val fileName = URLUtil.guessFileName(
-                        imageUrl, header("Content-Disposition"), body.contentType()?.toString()
+                    val fileName = sanitizeFileName(
+                        URLUtil.guessFileName(
+                            imageUrl, header("Content-Disposition"), body.contentType()?.toString()
+                        )
                     )
 
                     val relativePath =
@@ -90,6 +93,34 @@ class AndroidImageDownloader @Inject constructor(
 
     }
 
+    // ENAMETOOLONG is a limit on encoded bytes (NAME_MAX = 255 on ext4/f2fs), not on
+    // Kotlin/UTF-16 character count. A filename guessed from feed content can contain
+    // any script, so truncating by .length alone can still leave a >255-byte name for
+    // CJK, Cyrillic, emoji, etc. — truncate by UTF-8 byte length instead, one whole
+    // code point at a time so a surrogate pair or multi-byte sequence is never split.
+    internal fun sanitizeFileName(fileName: String): String {
+        if (fileName.toByteArray(Charsets.UTF_8).size <= MAX_FILENAME_BYTES) return fileName
+        val dot = fileName.lastIndexOf('.')
+        val ext = if (dot > 0 && fileName.length - dot in 2..10) fileName.substring(dot) else ""
+        val base = if (ext.isEmpty()) fileName else fileName.substring(0, dot)
+        val maxBaseBytes = (MAX_FILENAME_BYTES - ext.toByteArray(Charsets.UTF_8).size).coerceAtLeast(1)
+        return truncateToUtf8ByteLimit(base, maxBaseBytes) + ext
+    }
+
+    private fun truncateToUtf8ByteLimit(text: String, maxBytes: Int): String {
+        var byteCount = 0
+        var charIndex = 0
+        while (charIndex < text.length) {
+            val codePoint = text.codePointAt(charIndex)
+            val codePointChars = Character.charCount(codePoint)
+            val codePointBytes = String(Character.toChars(codePoint)).toByteArray(Charsets.UTF_8).size
+            if (byteCount + codePointBytes > maxBytes) break
+            byteCount += codePointBytes
+            charIndex += codePointChars
+        }
+        return text.substring(0, charIndex)
+    }
+
     @DeprecatedSinceApi(29)
     private fun Response.saveImageForAndroidP(
         fileName: String,
@@ -109,4 +140,8 @@ class AndroidImageDownloader @Inject constructor(
 
         return contentUri
     }
+
+    private companion object {
+        const val MAX_FILENAME_BYTES = 200
+    }
 }
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diff --git a/app/src/test/java/me/ash/reader/infrastructure/android/AndroidImageDownloaderTest.kt b/app/src/test/java/me/ash/reader/infrastructure/android/AndroidImageDownloaderTest.kt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a48c4377b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/src/test/java/me/ash/reader/infrastructure/android/AndroidImageDownloaderTest.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+package me.ash.reader.infrastructure.android
+
+import android.content.Context
+import kotlinx.coroutines.Dispatchers
+import okhttp3.OkHttpClient
+import org.junit.Assert.assertEquals
+import org.junit.Assert.assertTrue
+import org.junit.Test
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith
+import org.mockito.Mockito.mock
+import org.mockito.junit.MockitoJUnitRunner
+
+@RunWith(MockitoJUnitRunner::class)
+class AndroidImageDownloaderTest {
+
+    private val downloader = AndroidImageDownloader(
+        context = mock(Context::class.java),
+        ioDispatcher = Dispatchers.Unconfined,
+        okHttpClient = mock(OkHttpClient::class.java),
+    )
+
+    private fun byteLength(name: String) = name.toByteArray(Charsets.UTF_8).size
+
+    @Test
+    fun `short ascii filename is returned unchanged`() {
+        val name = "photo.jpg"
+        assertEquals(name, downloader.sanitizeFileName(name))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `long ascii filename is truncated by character count`() {
+        val name = "a".repeat(300) + ".jpg"
+        val result = downloader.sanitizeFileName(name)
+        assertTrue(byteLength(result) <= 200)
+        assertTrue(result.endsWith(".jpg"))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `long multibyte filename is truncated by UTF-8 byte length, not character count`() {
+        // Each character here is 3 bytes in UTF-8. 100 of them alone is already
+        // 300 bytes — well past the 200-byte budget even though only 100 chars.
+        val name = "文".repeat(100) + ".jpg"
+        val result = downloader.sanitizeFileName(name)
+        assertTrue(byteLength(result) <= 200)
+        assertTrue(result.endsWith(".jpg"))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `truncation never splits a surrogate pair`() {
+        // U+1F600 GRINNING FACE is a surrogate pair in UTF-16 and 4 bytes in UTF-8.
+        val emoji = "😀"
+        val name = emoji.repeat(80) + ".png"
+        val result = downloader.sanitizeFileName(name)
+        assertTrue(byteLength(result) <= 200)
+        // A split surrogate pair would make this string invalid / throw on re-encoding.
+        assertEquals(result, String(result.toByteArray(Charsets.UTF_8), Charsets.UTF_8))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `filename with no extension is truncated as-is`() {
+        val name = "b".repeat(300)
+        val result = downloader.sanitizeFileName(name)
+        assertTrue(byteLength(result) <= 200)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `implausibly long suffix after the last dot is not treated as an extension`() {
+        val name = "a".repeat(250) + "." + "b".repeat(50)
+        val result = downloader.sanitizeFileName(name)
+        assertTrue(byteLength(result) <= 200)
+    }
+}