[Python-Dev] Should ftplib use UTF-8 instead of latin-1 encoding? (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Fri Jan 23 08:45:23 CET 2009


Giampaolo Rodola' wrote:

Hi, while attempting to port pyftpdlib [1] to Python 3 I have noticed that ftplib differs from the previous 2.x version in that it uses latin-1 to encode everything it's sent over the FTP command channel, but by reading RFC-2640 [2] it seems that UTF-8 should be preferred instead. I'm far from being an expert of encodings, plus the RFC is quite hard to understand, so sorry in advance if I have misunderstood the whole thing.

I read it the same way. The whole point of the RFC is that UTF-8 rather than the very limited latin-1 is needed for true internationalization.

Just wanted to put this up to people more qualified than me.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib [2] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2640.txt --- Giampaolo http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib


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