The problem with UTF-8 capable ftp sites

[Hasso Tepper]

There is a problem in the code which doesn't allow to connect to the UTF-8
capable ftp sites at least on NetBSD and DragonFly platforms. Both these
platforms are using iconv implementation from Citrus project.

The problem is that logging in already fails - the prompt is just sitting
there on "Logging in". The snippet from debug output:

---> OPTS UTF8 ON
<--- 200 Always in UTF8 mode.
iconv_open(US-ASCII//TRANSLIT,UTF-8) failed: Invalid argument
---> USER anonymous

The point is that "//TRANSLIT" is unnecessary and really invalid argument
for Citrus iconv_open. Also, shouldn't it behave more sanely if 
iconv_open() is failing for whatever reason?

I added a quick workaround to the pkgsrc package ifdefing "if(translit)"
part out from DataRecoder::DataRecoder() for NetBSD and DragonFly, but I
think that permanent solution should be better than that.


regards,

-- 
Hasso Tepper