No Such File or Directory - Character support
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:04 am
Okay.. I've read through the enirety of the archive for this forum, all the way back into 2005 - I've seen others that have had issues related to this, but I've not found any kind of resolution.
A number of the FTP sites that I use contain files that have foreign characters in their names - germanic characters such as vowels with umlauts, or accent grave and the like. Also, characters like ` when used in place of apostrophes, and other characters such as +. Each time I encounter one of these files, I get an error that no such file or directory exists, and the cyberduck browser will not render the filename properly. Either the offending character is omitted enirely from the view, or it's replaced with a black diamond with a questionmark in it. Regardless, I get an empty file with the distorted name and a size of zero K, and the error that 'no such file or directory exists' and a disconnect.
I've tried every text encoding selection available in the menu, and I get this error on these files or directories every single time. Nothing I've tried has gotten past it. I can still get at these files if I use an FTP client on a Windows machine - but I hate having to fire the things up. I know that the mac filesystem allows these characters in names - so why can't it recognise them?
It's extremely frustrating. Is there anyone there that can tell me what I'm doing wrong, and how to fix it?
Thank you.
-j
A number of the FTP sites that I use contain files that have foreign characters in their names - germanic characters such as vowels with umlauts, or accent grave and the like. Also, characters like ` when used in place of apostrophes, and other characters such as +. Each time I encounter one of these files, I get an error that no such file or directory exists, and the cyberduck browser will not render the filename properly. Either the offending character is omitted enirely from the view, or it's replaced with a black diamond with a questionmark in it. Regardless, I get an empty file with the distorted name and a size of zero K, and the error that 'no such file or directory exists' and a disconnect.
I've tried every text encoding selection available in the menu, and I get this error on these files or directories every single time. Nothing I've tried has gotten past it. I can still get at these files if I use an FTP client on a Windows machine - but I hate having to fire the things up. I know that the mac filesystem allows these characters in names - so why can't it recognise them?
It's extremely frustrating. Is there anyone there that can tell me what I'm doing wrong, and how to fix it?
Thank you.
-j