[Python-Dev] Should ftplib use UTF-8 instead of latin-1 encoding?

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:15:18AM -0800, Brett Cannon wrote:
> 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.

   I don't know any server that encode file names in any way. All servers
I know just pass filenames as is, 8-bit; some that implement stricter
RFC-959 mangle chr(255), but that's all. One can encounter a server that
stores files in a number of different encodings.

Oleg.
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