Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.0) Installed from: Gentoo Packages It would be nice if kio_ftp could make use of the internationalization feature which is proposed in RFC 2640. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2640.txt More specifically, the server should include "UTF8" in its response to the "FEAT" inquiry. This informs the client about the server's adherence to the aforementioned RFC. Note also this paragraph: "Many existing clients interpret 8-bit pathnames as being in the local character set. They MAY continue to do so for pathnames that are not valid UTF-8." Independently of the UTF8 FEATure, I'd like to propose that kio_ftp uses UTF-8 as default encoding, since this is the local character set on most current systems. As far as I know, most popular FTP clients already accept UTF-8 filenames without forcing the user to change the encoding manually.
Most FTP servers don't implement any sort of UTF-8 recognition. They just treat the filenames as a stream of bytes and save that to disk. They expect the client to know what encoding to use. All that is fine as long as you don't use another client or you don't try to access the files through other means (e.g., shell or fish to the same server).
UTF-8 is the default encoding now.