Re: Unicode-aware FTP client

From: Yung-Fong Tang (ftang@netscape.com)
Date: Mon Jan 08 2001 - 17:20:07 EST


Could you kindly explain what does "Unicode-aware FTP client" mean ?
As I understand, the original FTP specification does not transfer any
charset information. How does your FTP client AWARE of Unicode ? Do you
mean you implement RFC 2640 ?

Frank da Cruz wrote:

> I posted a message here about a month ago about C-Kermit 7.1, which
> now includes a Unicode-aware FTP client. The second Alpha test has
> just been announced:
>
> http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck71.html
>
> The first Alpha test converted character sets of text files, but did
> not do anything about filenames. The second Alpha test takes care of
> filenames too. For details, see:
>
> http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckermit3.html#x3.7
>
> - Frank
>



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