On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 00:31, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: > Giampaolo Rodola' wrote: >> Hi, >> while attempting to port pyftpdlib [1] to Python 3 I have noticed that >> ftplib differs from the previous 2.x version in that it uses latin-1 >> to encode everything it's sent over the FTP command channel, but by >> reading RFC-2640 [2] it seems that UTF-8 should be preferred instead. >> I'm far from being an expert of encodings, plus the RFC is quite hard >> to understand, so sorry in advance if I have misunderstood the whole >> thing. > > I read it that a conforming client MUST issue a FEAT command, to > determine whether the server supports UTF8. One would have to go > back to the original FTP RFC, but it seams that, in the absence > of server UTF8 support, all path names must be 7-bit clean (which > means that ASCII should be the default encoding). > > In any case, Brett changed the encoding to latin1 in r58378, maybe > he can comment. >
If I remember correctly something along Martin's comment about 7-bit clean is needed, but some servers don't follow the standard, so I swapped it to Latin-1. But that was so long ago I don't remember where I gleaned the details from in the RFC. If I misread the RFC and it is UTF-8 then all the better to make more of the world move over to Unicode. -Brett _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com