Hi folk. The Kermit Project at Columbia University (a Unicode
Consortium member) is happy to announce a Unicode-aware FTP client
for UNIX (potentially all varieties: Linux, AIX, Solaris, etc etc),
available now for testing:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftpclient.html
In fact, it's a new release (7.1) of C-Kermit:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckermit.html
The Unicode awareness consists of being able to convert the
character-sets of text files as part of the transfer process.
Any text file can be converted between any pair of character
sets that C-Kermit knows about. These include:
ascii dec-multinational koi8r
british dg-international koi8u
bulgaria-pc dutch latin1-iso
canadian-french elot927-greek latin2-iso
cp1250 elot928-greek latin9-iso
cp1251-cyrillic euc-jp macintosh-latin
cp1252 finnish mazovia-pc
cp437 french next-multinational
cp850 german norwegian
cp852 greek-iso portuguese
cp855-cyrillic hebrew-7 shift-jis-kanji
cp858 hebrew-iso short-koi
cp862-hebrew hp-roman8 spanish
cp866-cyrillic hungarian swedish
cp869-greek iso2022jp-kanji swiss
cyrillic-iso italian ucs2
danish jis7-kanji utf8
dec-kanji koi8
It can also convert a local text file from any of these sets
to any other one (with, obviously, the expected amount of
loss when going from a bigger set to a smaller one). The
national-looking names (like french, german, dutch, etc)
are the ISO 646 7-bit sets.
The character-set features work independently of the server;
therefore no particular server is required, nor are any special
advanced FTP features.
The same FTP client will be available for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000
after the testing phase is over.
Reports, comments, suggestions welcome. (But don't bother
suggesting UTF-16 instead of UCS-2 -- I know that already. One
thing at a time!)
- Frank
