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, because many FTP servers only return UTF8 file names,
> which means non-ASCII file name characters will be saved as two
> different bytes.

True, for example Filezilla server always uses UTF-8. 
Rename a file so that the file name contains a character beyond #127.
FileZilla will send the file listing utf-8 encoded.

BTW: Actually one character may be encoded in up to 4 bytes in UTF-8.

--
Arno Garrels




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