Francois PIETTE wrote:
>>> type=file;modify=20080806153616;size=200; test £½ ¶ � « ».txt
>> 
>> This is not a typical french filename. There are a lot of characters
>> which are never used.
>> See attached a typical one. The file name is "Angus fait la fête à
>> François quand l'été arrive.txt" just in case your mail client
>> corrupt it :-) 
>> 
>> This file name works very well when server is ICS V5/D7 and client
>> is either FileZilla 2.2.32 or ICS.
>> 
>> Remember, I'm speaking about french, not the whole unicode character
>> set ! 

However FileZilla server lists this file name as: 
Angus fait la fête à François quand l'été arrive.txt

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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: <twsocket@elists.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 2:50 PM
>> Subject: Re: [twsocket] FTP and Utf-8 in ICSv7
>> 
>> 
>>> Actually, ICS V5 or V6 FTP server and FTP client works nice with
>>> french accented file names.
>> 
>> Sorry, I disagree, this is the ICS FTP client listing from FileZilla
>> server, all names are UTF-8, the first one is ANSI only characters,
>> which can be clearly seen since the character after the escape is
>> unchanged. 
>> The last name is three character sequences.   If the FTP client
>> tries to download such a file, it will fail.
>> 
>> type=file;modify=20080806153616;size=200; test £½ ¶ � « ».txt
>> type=file;modify=20080806153616;size=200; testunicode.txt
>> type=file;modify=20080806153616;size=200;
>> testâ-²â-ºâ-¼â-"â-²â-ºâ-".txt 
>> 
>> ICS will only work if the server returns ANSI file names.  It may be
>> that FileZilla accepts ANSI commands as well as UTF-8, as we could,
>> so it may sometimes appear to work, but properly written clients
>> will fail. 
>> 
>>> It also works OK when client is FileZilla.
>> 
>> Because the ICS FTP server does not announce itself as supporting
>> UTF-8, older client supporting ANSI will still work.
>> 
>>> There are many french ICS users and none have yet
>>> contacted me to say it doesn't work as expected.
>> 
>> Maybe they are all using ANSI FTP servers.
>> 
>> Angus
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