Subject: Ftp-WG: RE: draft-ietf-ftpext-intl-ftp-05.txt

From: Alex Belits <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 04:47:44 -0500

On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Martin J. Duerst wrote:

> > My inclination is to require that banners and the text part of responses
> > be encoded in utf-8,
> 
> I think we could define the "require" in the same way that we
> currently require utf-8 for filenames. This would "semi-legalize"
> the current practice of sending banners (and maybe error messages;
> I don't know) in some legacy encoding.

  National charsets are not "legacy encodings", they are current national
standards (what Unicode is not).

--
Alex