On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 at 21:23, "Martin v. L?wis" 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.However, an ftp server is different. It might start up with an empty folder, and receive *all* of its files through upload. Then it can certainly know what encoding the file names have on disk. It *could* also support operation on pre-existing files, e.g. by providing a configuration directive telling the encoding of the file names, or by ignoring all file names that are not encoded in UTF-8.
I don't see how starting with an empty directory helps. The filename comes from the client, and the FTP server can't know what the actual encoding of that filename is. --RDM
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