[Python-Dev] Should ftplib use UTF-8 instead of latin-1 encoding? (original) (raw)
"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Jan 23 21:23:06 CET 2009
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Given that a Unix OS can't know what encoding a filename is in (*), I can't see that one could practically implement a Unix FTP server in any other way.
However, an ftp server is different. It might start up with an empty folder, and receive all of its files through upload. Then it can certainly know what encoding the file names have on disk. It could also support operation on pre-existing files, e.g. by providing a configuration directive telling the encoding of the file names, or by ignoring all file names that are not encoded in UTF-8.
Regards, Martin
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