FTP of files with non english file names

[Muthukumar Arasu <tm...@hotmail.com>]

I wrote a program to use commons-net to transfer files and it works well for 
all files with just english characters in it. When I used the program to 
transfer a file with chinese characters in its name, it puts the file in the 
target machine but totally creates a garabge file name at the target 
machine. (For example if I put ~!@123.txt (here ~!@ assume are some chinese 
characters) then in the server it 1shows up something like ??123.txt. If i 
programatically retrive the file as get ~!@123.txt, then it is able to 
retrieve it back.  I think the API translates the characterset into some 
other characters which it is able to understand on both way file transfers.

If I use the OS command line FTP to get ~!@123.txt then it fails, because 
the file ??123.txt is only present at the target location.

Could anyone clarify on how to do file transfers using FTPClient with non 
english character set?

Thanks



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[Help] FTP of files with non english file names

[Muthukumar Arasu <tm...@hotmail.com>]

I was able to narrow down the problem to storeFile and retrieveFile methods 
in FTPClient, where one have to give the remote file name as a String. In my 
case they are Chinese characters (GB18030) which gets garbled up at the 
target machine. How should I pass such characters to these methods. Any help 
would be appreciated.

Thanks
Kumar

>
>I wrote a program to use commons-net to transfer files and it works well 
>for all files with just english characters in it. When I used the program 
>to transfer a file with chinese characters in its name, it puts the file in 
>the target machine but totally creates a garabge file name at the target 
>machine. (For example if I put ~!@123.txt (here ~!@ assume are some chinese 
>characters) then in the server it 1shows up something like ??123.txt. If i 
>programatically retrive the file as get ~!@123.txt, then it is able to 
>retrieve it back.  I think the API translates the characterset into some 
>other characters which it is able to understand on both way file transfers.
>
>If I use the OS command line FTP to get ~!@123.txt then it fails, because 
>the file ??123.txt is only present at the target location.
>
>Could anyone clarify on how to do file transfers using FTPClient with non 
>english character set?
>
>Thanks
>
>
>
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