Transferring files with Unicode via FTP

outpostmm

• December 14, 2016 19:09

Hello, Our servers are set up with pureftp, and I'm using the Filezilla client. It looks like I'm having transfer errors for any file that contains certain characters (Unicode characters with accents, parentheses, etc) in the path or filename. Is this a known issue with the server or client? Thanks

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  cPanelMichael

  • December 18, 2016 19:32

  Hello @outpostmm, UTF-8 characters are supported in file names with Pure-FTPd. I confirmed this by accessing FTP on a test server and using the FEAT command:
  ftp> feat 211-Extensions supported: EPRT IDLE MDTM SIZE MFMT REST STREAM MLST type*;size*;sizd*;modify*;UNIX.mode*;UNIX.uid*;UNIX.gid*;unique*; MLSD AUTH TLS PBSZ PROT UTF8 TVFS ESTA PASV EPSV SPSV 211 End.
  As you can see, it lists support for UTF8. Additionally, uploading a test file with parenthesis worked well:
  ftp> put "12(345).test" local: 12(345).test remote: 12(345).test 229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||58833|) 150 Accepted data connection 0 0.00 KiB/s 226 File successfully transferred
  Thank you.

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