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Demi-god · 05-04-2003, 12:55 PM

Internationalization of the File Transfer Protocol:
http://war.jgaa.com/ftp/rfc/rfc2640.txt

FlashFXP displays ???? because Windows uses Unicode(UTF-16, maybe UTF8?) for file/directory names and since FlashFXP uses ANSI strings internally, a conversion has to be made. Because my locality is set to Finnish, the program attempts to convert these names to latin-1 (as opposed to shift-JIS which would be appropriate for Japanese characters) and because these characters do not belong to the latin-1 character set the converted string is instead filled with question marks.

05-04-2003, 12:55 PM
Demi-god Junior Member Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 5	Internationalization of the File Transfer Protocol: http://war.jgaa.com/ftp/rfc/rfc2640.txt FlashFXP displays ???? because Windows uses Unicode(UTF-16, maybe UTF8?) for file/directory names and since FlashFXP uses ANSI strings internally, a conversion has to be made. Because my locality is set to Finnish, the program attempts to convert these names to latin-1 (as opposed to shift-JIS which would be appropriate for Japanese characters) and because these characters do not belong to the latin-1 character set the converted string is instead filled with question marks.