X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SARE_SUB_ENC_UTF8 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4BBC7A21.6020703@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:27:13 -0400 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090812 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin Mailing List Subject: Re: UTF-8 in ftp client. References: <4BBBD9BF.8060709@cwilson.fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 4/7/2010 2:41 AM, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote: > On 2010.04.07 4:02, Charles Wilson wrote: >> ...which is good advice. The other clients MAY support UTF-8 or some >> other explicit i18n/NLS, but the inetutils bare-bones ftp client >> doesn't, and won't. >> > Won't because religion don't allow? No, in fact if someone were to do the work of providing a patch that implements it, I'm sure they'd be quite pleased to incorporate. > So GNU guies never accept patches for UTF-8 support? The reason I said it won't, is because *I* have neither the time nor sufficient knowledge to implement it -- and I'm the guy that maintains cygwin's inetutils (that is, ftp+other stuff) package. I know better than to hope that someone else will do it for me -- and really, I think a patch like this would be better to go upstream, and then we could pick it up on the next official release (1.8) [*]. Anyway, for now and in the short-to-medium term future, you should probably use a different client (like lftp) which already supports your needs. [*] Although I plan eventually to break out ftp and ftp-server, and base them instead on fedora's netkit-ftp packages and source code, since that, unlike inetutils, already supports IPv6. It's possible netkit-ftp as patched by fedora already supports UTF-8; I don't know yet. -- Chuck -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple