From kde-core-devel  Thu Jun 05 15:23:39 2003
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 15:23:39 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: RFC: Encoding of filenames [long]
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On Thursday 05 June 2003 14:21, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> for quite some time I have seen the problem of the encoding of filenames,
> both local and remote, arise in the bug reports in bugs.kde.org. So let me
> summarise what the two problems are:
>
> 1) when accessing a remote resource, like FTP, the encoding of the remote
> filenames cannot be changed. That means that it is quite likely that the
> filename with non-ASCII characters will be displayed with a name different
> than what was intended.
> Bug report relating to this: #56197

This is easy to solve:
kio_ftp should honour an "Encoding" MetaData. Then you can specify the 
encoding to use in kio_ftprc on a per-domain basis. kcm module to configure 
it, done.

Cheers,
Waldo
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