ghisler(Author) wrote:
The problem is that I don't currently have any encoding conversion functions in ftp, so I will have to change a lot of functions to get this work.
Which must be painful
The demand for such a function hasn't been very high yet, so I have concentrated on other additions like thumbnails view first...
If I may add my 5 cents: I am from Poland, I use TC all the time, but there's only one thing that makes me cry about TC: no UTF support in FTP.
I have to move files around three Linux servers, all based on Redhat distros (RedHat 9 and FC3). They all use UTF-8 by default which is so great (because it solves problems with Polish letters on Linux). And as far as I know, the trend to use UTF-8 on Linuxes will only get stronger (so you can imagine that a lot of FTP users will start experiencing problems with that).
In may case, the boxes are both Samba and FTP servers, so users within company network use all kinds of stupid names one can imagine (special signs, Polish discritics, lots of spaces in names etc.). There is no way I can force them (users) to use "normal" (7-bit ASCII) filenames, just to make my work easier.
And my problem is: I can upload a file or two with their names changed (to 7-bit), but there's no way I can upload a tree (with - say - 100 files). Right now, after uploading a file, I have to SSH to the server and rename it via bash, so the users can see it in their SMB directory listings.
By the way, to solve the problem I thought about buying SmartFTP, but event this app can't handle UTF-8 dirs with spaces and Polish signs...
So, PLEASE consider assigning this issue a bit higher priority than thumbnails
Regards
Faithful WC/TC user
Michal