> Hello.
> I have troubles giving me a big headache, I hope somebody may help me.
> I'm using Indy.Sockets to have FTP support for my VB.NET application
> (I also
> tried with another dll made in C# but the trouble is the same).
> The idea is that I added a dll as a reference to my project. There is
> a FTP
> object which have the method put (path as string, name as string,
> append as
> boolean).
> Here is the trouble now and I saw a lot of articles on it but it
> didn't make
> it clearer. When giving strings containing accentuated characters (eg.
> 'é')
> to the string arguments, the accentuated characters are replaced by a
> '?'
> causing the ftp upload to file (for example calling "ftp.put
> ("éééé","é",false) throws the ftp command "STOR ?".
> What's the matter and how to solve it ? (maybe I have to convert my
> string
> in an other type of sting but I can't figure out).
> Best regards.

"GhostInAK" wrote:

> Hello Wyz,
>
> é is a unicode character.  Both the FTP library and the FTP server/OS must
> understand unicode.
> Unicode is a 2-byte character set.. so if either the Library and/or the server
> only understand 1-byte character sets it'll interpret each byte of the 2-byte
> character set as an individual character.. thus your problem.
>
> Enjoy,
> -Boo
>
> > Hello.
> > I have troubles giving me a big headache, I hope somebody may help me.
> > I'm using Indy.Sockets to have FTP support for my VB.NET application
> > (I also
> > tried with another dll made in C# but the trouble is the same).
> > The idea is that I added a dll as a reference to my project. There is
> > a FTP
> > object which have the method put (path as string, name as string,
> > append as
> > boolean).
> > Here is the trouble now and I saw a lot of articles on it but it
> > didn't make
> > it clearer. When giving strings containing accentuated characters (eg.
> > 'é')
> > to the string arguments, the accentuated characters are replaced by a
> > '?'
> > causing the ftp upload to file (for example calling "ftp.put
> > ("éééé","é",false) throws the ftp command "STOR ?".
> > What's the matter and how to solve it ? (maybe I have to convert my
> > string
> > in an other type of sting but I can't figure out).
> > Best regards.
>
>
>