RFC: Encoding of filenames [long]

[Waldo Bastian]

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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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