Re: [twsocket] FTP and Utf-8 in ICSv7

2008-09-06 Thread Maurizio Lotauro
Scrive Arno Garrels [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Maurizio Lotauro wrote: Scrive Arno Garrels [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] But first I would like discuss about the wide string published properties. How are they handled by D7 - D2007? [..] But how is it stored in the dfm? This is no longer a

Re: [twsocket] FTP and Utf-8 in ICSv7

2008-09-04 Thread Maurizio Lotauro
Scrive Arno Garrels [EMAIL PROTECTED]: First for all, sorry for the delay... Maurizio Lotauro wrote: I followed the whole thread, and my opinion is that adding this feature to D7 - D2007 compiler is not good if this imply to break existing code, in particular when D2009 is ready to ship.

Re: [twsocket] FTP and Utf-8 in ICSv7

2008-09-04 Thread Arno Garrels
Maurizio Lotauro wrote: Scrive Arno Garrels [EMAIL PROTECTED]: First for all, sorry for the delay... Thanks, for the response! But first I would like discuss about the wide string published properties. How are they handled by D7 - D2007? [..] But how is it stored in the dfm? This is no

Re: [twsocket] FTP and Utf-8 in ICSv7

2008-08-31 Thread Maurizio Lotauro
Scrive Arno Garrels [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Before I write the full answer I need an information. I introduced an alias: {$IFDEF D7-D2007} UnicodeString = WideString {$ENDIF} and changed three properties, HostFileName, LocalFileName and HostDir from String to UnicodeString. Are

Re: [twsocket] FTP and Utf-8 in ICSv7

2008-08-31 Thread Arno Garrels
Maurizio Lotauro wrote: Scrive Arno Garrels [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Before I write the full answer I need an information. I introduced an alias: {$IFDEF D7-D2007} UnicodeString = WideString {$ENDIF} and changed three properties, HostFileName, LocalFileName and HostDir from String

Re: [twsocket] FTP and Utf-8 in ICSv7

2008-08-29 Thread Arno Garrels
Maurizio Lotauro wrote: I followed the whole thread, and my opinion is that adding this feature to D7 - D2007 compiler is not good if this imply to break existing code, in particular when D2009 is ready to ship. If the programmer should rework its code it is better that is for D2009 than for

Re: [twsocket] FTP and Utf-8 in ICSv7

2008-08-28 Thread Maurizio Lotauro
Scrive Arno Garrels [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi All, Hi Arno, What do you think about adding Utf8-support to the FTP components in ICSv7 for compilers D7 - D2007 as well? I don't use the ftp components, but I think that every enhancements are welcome :-) [...] My prefered solution is changing

Re: [twsocket] FTP and Utf-8 in ICSv7

2008-08-24 Thread Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd
What do you think about adding Utf8-support to the FTP components in ICSv7 for compilers D7 - D2007 as well? I will be doing this shortly for V6 and v7, as previously discussed in depth. Angus -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto

Re: [twsocket] FTP and Utf-8 in ICSv7

2008-08-24 Thread Arno Garrels
Francois PIETTE wrote: Before D2009, the user will have to add code to encode their international characters in UTF8 and the component will have to have code to handle it properly. In the component code, you'll have conditional compilation for handling string properties which have a need

Re: [twsocket] FTP and Utf-8 in ICSv7

2008-08-24 Thread Francois PIETTE
PROTECTED] To: ICS support mailing twsocket@elists.org Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 10:10 AM Subject: Re: [twsocket] FTP and Utf-8 in ICSv7 Francois PIETTE wrote: Before D2009, the user will have to add code to encode their international characters in UTF8 and the component will have to have

Re: [twsocket] FTP and Utf-8 in ICSv7

2008-08-24 Thread Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd
Not many people will still use pre-D2009 compiler to really support international charset more than now (for example for french, unicode is defenitely not needed). Currently the v5 and v6 FTP clients do not fully support the French character set, because many FTP servers only return UTF8

Re: [twsocket] FTP and Utf-8 in ICSv7

2008-08-24 Thread Francois PIETTE
PROTECTED] To: twsocket@elists.org Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 1:14 PM Subject: Re: [twsocket] FTP and Utf-8 in ICSv7 Not many people will still use pre-D2009 compiler to really support international charset more than now (for example for french, unicode is defenitely not needed). Currently the v5

Re: [twsocket] FTP and Utf-8 in ICSv7

2008-08-24 Thread Fastream Technologies
work as expected. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.overbyte.be - Original Message - From: Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: twsocket@elists.org Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 1:14 PM Subject: Re: [twsocket] FTP and Utf-8 in ICSv7 Not many people

Re: [twsocket] FTP and Utf-8 in ICSv7

2008-08-24 Thread Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd
Actually, ICS V5 or V6 FTP server and FTP client works nice with french accented file names. Sorry, I disagree, this is the ICS FTP client listing from FileZilla server, all names are UTF-8, the first one is ANSI only characters, which can be clearly seen since the character after the escape

Re: [twsocket] FTP and Utf-8 in ICSv7

2008-08-24 Thread Arno Garrels
Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd wrote: Not many people will still use pre-D2009 compiler to really support international charset more than now (for example for french, unicode is defenitely not needed). Currently the v5 and v6 FTP clients do not fully support the French character set,

Re: [twsocket] FTP and Utf-8 in ICSv7

2008-08-24 Thread Francois PIETTE
Internet Component Suite (ICS) http://www.overbyte.be - Original Message - From: Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: twsocket@elists.org Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 2:50 PM Subject: Re: [twsocket] FTP and Utf-8 in ICSv7 Actually, ICS V5 or V6 FTP server and FTP

Re: [twsocket] FTP and Utf-8 in ICSv7

2008-08-24 Thread Arno Garrels
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: twsocket@elists.org Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 2:50 PM Subject: Re: [twsocket] FTP and Utf-8 in ICSv7 Actually, ICS V5 or V6 FTP server and FTP client works nice with french accented file names. Sorry, I disagree, this is the ICS FTP client listing from FileZilla

Re: [twsocket] FTP and Utf-8 in ICSv7

2008-08-24 Thread Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd
type=file;modify=20080806153616;size=200; test £½ ¶ � « ».txt This is not a typical french filename. There are a lot of characters which are never used. That file name only contains characters from the standard Windows ANSI set, simply UTF8 encoded, which is why some appear

Re: [twsocket] FTP and Utf-8 in ICSv7

2008-08-23 Thread Francois PIETTE
I think properties can be of type string in all versions. For pre-Delphi 2009, the component can easily pack an UTF8 string into the AnsiString. Up to the user to handle it properly as an UTF8 string. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] The author of the freeware multi-tier middleware MidWare The author of