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Fri Jan 23 20:45:10 CET 2009 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-January/085381.html

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 02:35:01PM -0500, rdmurray at bitdance.com wrote:
> 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.

   Can you believe there is a well-known program that solved the issue?! It
is Apache web server! One can configure different directories and different
file types to have different encodings. I often do that. One (sysadmin) can
even allow users to do the configuration themselves via .htaccess local files.
   I am pretty sure FTP servers could borrow some ideas from Apache in this
area. But they don't. Pity. :(

Oleg.
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     Oleg Broytmann            http://phd.pp.ru/            phd at phd.pp.ru
           Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.

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