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From: fdc@columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Subject: Re: wu-ftpd, samba and special characters
Date: 7 Jan 2001 19:14:28 -0500
Organization: Columbia University
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
In article <i72f29.f32.ln@p3EE0585F.dip.t-dialin.net>,
Duke Sniper <sniper@mailto.de> wrote:
: I'm runing a Linux box that acts as both samba and ftp server that shares my
: mp3 files that reside on a reiserfs partition. Since I'm German, I've got a
: lot of filenames that consist of special characters. When showing the
: directory via samba-shared mounts, the Win-machine properly displays the
: Umlauts, but all Linux-Tools (wu-ftpd, mc, ls, etc.) show weird chars. Since
: they all look alike with the standard Windoze fonts, it's impossible to get
: the files via command-line ftp.
:
Not any more. Here is a new FTP client that converts filename character sets
between client and server:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck71.html
and also translates the contents of any file transferred in text mode.
So for example, you might have files with German names such as:
Gr��e-aus-K�ln.txt
on the server, where their names and contents are encoded in (say) PC code
page 850 (or any other character set, e.g. CP1252), and you need to transfer
these files to Linux, where you are using ISO 8859-1 Latin Alphabet 1, or
(if you are very modern) Unicode UTF-8. All of these combinations, and
many more, are possible. For details see:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckermit3.html#x3.7
The translations work independently of the FTP server, so it doesn't matter
what the server is: wu-ftpd or anything else.
Plus, it's scriptable and secure.
- Frank