Oleg Broytmann wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 02:35:01PM -0500, rdmur...@bitdance.com wrote: >> 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. > > Can you believe there is a well-known program that solved the issue?! It > is Apache web server! One can configure different directories and different > file types to have different encodings. I often do that. One (sysadmin) can > even allow users to do the configuration themselves via .htaccess local files. > I am pretty sure FTP servers could borrow some ideas from Apache in this > area. But they don't. Pity. :( > AFAIK, Apache is in the same boat as ftp servers. You're thinking of the encoding inside of the files. The problem is with the file names themselves.
-Toshio
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