On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 at 21:55, Oleg Broytmann wrote:
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:15:18AM -0800, Brett Cannon wrote:
If I remember correctly something along Martin's comment about 7-bit
clean is needed, but some servers don't follow the standard, so I
swapped it to Latin-1. But that was so long ago I don't remember where
I gleaned the details from in the RFC. If I misread the RFC and it is
UTF-8 then all the better to make more of the world move over to
Unicode.
I don't know any server that encode file names in any way. All servers
I know just pass filenames as is, 8-bit; some that implement stricter
RFC-959 mangle chr(255), but that's all. One can encounter a server that
stores files in a number of different encodings.
Given that a Unix OS can't know what encoding a filename is in (*),
I can't see that one could practically implement a Unix FTP server
in any other way.
--RDM
(*) remember the earlier extensive discussion of this when the issue
of listdir() ignoring non-encodable filesnames came up?
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