Apparently the Umlauts in my mail got mangled by majordomo, I meant german latin1 characters, sometimes rewritten as 'ae' 'oe' and 'ue'.
benny > Hi, > > I need to transfer files via sftp (ssh ftp) from a Windows machine. > This files may contain Umlauts (vd|) and Spaces. > > I made several tests and stuck with the following: > > sftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:'/file-withv|d.txt' > > works, but > > sftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:'/file with spaces.txt' > > doesn't work. > > If I use the interactive sftp shell its different: > > sftp [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Connecting to windowsmachine.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: > sftp> get '/file with spaces.txt' > > works, but I am unable to enter Umlauts in the interactive mode and when I > copy paste them they disappear. > > I need to create a script and because of the spaces-problem I used > expect.pm to trigger the interactive mode. Is there a way to make it work > with latin1 characters (using FreeBSD, but I guess that shouldn't matter). > I can enter Umlauts perfectly in the shell (bash here) and I've set > LANG=de_DE.ISO8859-15 > export LANG > > Am I missing something? Is there a chance to get this working? > > Best Regards, > Benny