Problem with download from FTP

The behaviour described in the bug report is either by design, or would be far too complex/time-consuming to be changed

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Problem with download from FTP

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On a local ftp-server there exist some directories with a charachter "я" (in Russian) in names. So when I enter such directories this character appears twice (as you can seen on screenshots) and when I try to copy a file from this directory I get an error "Error downloading file".
[img]http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/6503/ftpproblem1xz5.png[/img]

After I entered directoty:
[img]http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/3407/ftpproblem2dp3.png[/img]

When I'm trying to download same file from same directory with Firefox for example, It works ok.
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Post by *Slavic »

Some explanations: Russian letter "я" has a code 0xff in the single-byte Windows 1251 table, but in the Unix system this code is different (if enabled), or non-ASCII letters could be restricted at all.

ADv, could you check whether this behaviour is reproduced with another FTP (non-browser) client? And what is the code table on FTP server and Firefox? If 1251, this is the well known problem with character 0xff.
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Post by *ghisler(Author) »

The problem is that ftp _should_ use Telnet as the protocol for sending commands, and in Telnet, 0xff has a special meaning. Unfortunately not all ftp servers seem to use this encoding, so it's currently not supported by Total Commander...
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