Feature Request: ISO-8859-1 for FTP server

[Tobias N]

Hi,

I'm using my ASUS RT-N66U router with an external hard drive for backup. Unfortunately, the backup software only uses ISO-8859-1 for FTP transfer, which creates problems with German umlauts in file names. Would it be possible to add ISO-8859-1 to the FTP options?

Kind regards,
Tobias

 

[ColinTaylor]

What problem are you seeing? The filenames will look strange when logged on to the router because it uses UTF-8. But they should still look OK from your backup software.

P.S. Maybe you should inform the makers of your backup software that ISO-8859-1 is not a valid character set for FTP. Only 7-bit ASCII and UTF-8 are officially supported.

 

[Tobias N]

The backup software fails to upload files with umlauts. I agree that the backup software should use UTF-8, but that doesn't solve my problem I contacted the maker, though.

I was hopping, since there are some other character sets available in FTP options, it would be easy to add this one as well

 

[ColinTaylor]

Actually, thinking about this a bit more... I can imagine why you would have problems with those characters. For example ü (FC) would be interpreted as the beginning of a 6 byte sequence.

Unfortunately this doesn't help you. The router uses vsftpd and you can change its options in anyway you like. But there is no option to use ISO-8859-1 because it's not part of the FTP standard.

 

[ColinTaylor]

Looking at those FTP options in the GUI, they mostly change the "remote_charset" parameter which as far as I understand it only effects the character translations in ASCII mode. However, setting it to something other than UTF-8 also sets "enable_iconv" which I think applies to the file names rather than the contents.

Try setting it to Russian and see if it makes a difference.