Foreign characters in filenames on FTP
Firas Kraiem
firas at itsuki.fkraiem.org
Sat Jan 24 00:10:28 PST 2009
Hi,
I have an issue with filenames that have foreign (e.g. Japanese)
characters in them when trying to access them by FTP from a Windows
machine (the server is running FreeBSD 7.1, the same problem occurs
with both the builtin ftpd and vsftpd). It is most likely an encoding
problem, but I can't figure out where it lies exactly. It basically
boils down to this:
When I access the FTP from my Windows machine, the foreign characters
come as a load of random characters. However, when I access it from a
Linux machine, everything is fine, and the filemanes are also fine
when I use ls at the shell.
As I said, it is most likely a problem in how FreeBSD encodes the
filenames, but I read throught the mount(8) man page and found no
option that would allow changing it. Any pointers would be much
appreciated.
Firas
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