How to mount FTP as volume?

[John Horner]

Slightly off-topic I know, but ... there was discussion recently of 
ways to get FTP servers to mount as volumes on OS X, but I can't find 
it now -- can anyone point me at the right tool?

Re: How to mount FTP as volume?

[Sherm Pendley]

On Mar 31, 2005, at 2:43 AM, John Horner wrote:
Finder. Select Go/Connect to Server, and enter an ftp:// URL in the 
Server Address box.
Hmm. That wasn't it, that's the funny thing. Although it works of 
course! How weird I never knew I could do that...
Hmmm... apropos ftp lists a mount_ftp command, although I've never 
used that one myself. Might that be it?

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dealing with UTF8 text

[Avi Rappoport]

Hi old friends (and new),
I'm quite enjoying getting back to scripting, and like Perl a lot, 
especially with Affrus.  While I'm probably inefficient, it's nice to 
have a language actually designed for text processing (search engine 
logs, in my case).  However, I've got some Unicode issues and that 
seems to be platform-specific, so thought I'd ask here.

I've done enough research to know that I should avoid hardcoded 
counting with positions and use the perl functions which will 
automatically handle utf8 characters properly.  That's cool.  I'm 
pretty sure I'm reading in utf8 and comparisons seem to work.

What I can't do is generate readable cross-platform output to show my 
clients.  Even opening the output in BBEdit as UTF8 doesn't convert 
the codes into properly rendered extended characters, and by the time 
it gets into Excel on their Windows workstation, all hope is pretty 
much gone.

The stuff that looks like HTML entities is fine when viewed in a browser:
#1575;#1604;#1578;#1593;#1575;#1585;#1601;
s#305;emens
And if necessary, I can deliver in HTML.
But my logs have characters like this in them:
(from BBEdit as UTF8:)
ˆáˆáˆáˆáˆáˆáˆáˆáˆáˆáˆáˆáˆáˆâ ˆ‚ˆáˆ°ˆüˆì ˆ¶ˆèˆ¨ ˆáˆîˆ¶ˆùˆâ
atualiza§£o
carreo
(from BBEdit as Mac Roman)
É íáßÓ  Ô¯É
atualizaˆÉ¬ßˆÉ¬£o
torunn tømmervold
löschen
I can tell they mean something, but I can't figure out how to make 
them readable.  Help?

TIA,
Avi

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