RFC 2640:Internationalization of the File Transfer...
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... requirement to support character sets outside of the ASCII [ASCII] / Latin-1 [ISO-8859] ...


... character sets were 7 bit ASCII and 8 bit EBCDIC. Today these ...
... multinational systems. Given that there are a number of character sets in current use that provide more characters than 7-bit ASCII, it makes sense to decide on a convenient way to represent the union of those possibilities. To work globally either requires support of a ...
... defines a single character set, in addition to NVT ASCII and EBCDIC, which is understandable by all systems. For FTP ...
... international exchange of pathnames, will still allow backward compatibility with older systems because the code set positions for ASCII characters are identical to the one byte sequence in UTF-8. ...
... UTF-8's benefits are that it is compatible with 7 bit ASCII, so it doesn't affect programs that give special meanings to various ASCII characters; it is immune to ...
... bit ASCII, so it doesn't affect programs that give special meanings to various ASCII characters; it is immune to synchronization errors; its encoding rules ...
... A beneficial property of UTF-8 is that its single byte sequence is consistent with the ASCII character set. This feature will allow a transition where old ASCII-only clients ...
... consistent with the ASCII character set. This feature will allow a transition where old ASCII-only clients can still interoperate with new servers that support the UTF-8 encoding ...


... speaking person". This specification RECOMMENDS that the server default language be English encoded using ASCII. This text may be augmented by text from other languages. Once negotiated, server-PI ...


... Character Sets - 7 Bit American National Standard Code for Information Interchange (7- bit ASCII) ...


... words had a 2.7% false reading; SJIS had a 0.0005% false reading; other encoding such as ASCII or KOI-8 have a 0% false reading. This probability is highest for short pathnames and decreases as pathname size increases. Implementers ...
... FTP server cannot be configured, the server should simply use the raw bytes in the file name. They might be ASCII or UTF-8. ...


... while (ucs4_buf != ucs4_endbuf) { if ( *ucs4_buf <= 0x7F) // ASCII chars no conversion needed { *t_utf8_buf++ = (unsigned char) *ucs4_buf; ...
... { if ((*utf8_buf & 0x80) == 0x00) /*ASCII chars no conversion needed */ { ...



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