> 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.
However, an ftp server is different. It might start up with an empty folder, and receive *all* of its files through upload. Then it can certainly know what encoding the file names have on disk. It *could* also support operation on pre-existing files, e.g. by providing a configuration directive telling the encoding of the file names, or by ignoring all file names that are not encoded in UTF-8. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
