If you can have encoded Unicode in domain names and e-mail addresses, why not in file names. The IETF is moving in the direction of Unicode encoded as IDN and UTF-8; why not file systems?
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Radoslaw Skorupka [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 3:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Directories on ft server with Hebrew names W dniu 27.01.2022 o 07:08, Gadi Ben-Avi pisze: > Hi, > We have a need to transfer files to an FTP server to a directory who's name > contains Hebrew characters. The encoding is UTF-8. > How do I configure the FTP client on z/OS to allow this? > If I do a directory listing on the level above the directory, I get all types > of weird named, showing that the translation is not being done correctly. Stupid question: why? Why can't you avoid using Hebrew characters in the directory name? (it's not political) Hebrew is much harder (for computers) than "latin-like" alphabets like Polish, Spanish, German, etc. However even in Polish I strictly avoid to use Polish characters for system objects. Polish data or comments, even messages - OK. Why directories? To be honest I do the same on localized versions of Windows or Linux. Just to avoid problems which I can easily avoid. BTW: long time ago we were playing with strange unix filenames like *. Good for jokes, but I would not use "*" filename in production. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
