- From: Terje Bless <link@pobox.com>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 23:07:38 +0200
- To: W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
On 27.07.01 at 11:30, Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org> wrote: >By the way, it looks like you are assuming that the encoding of >FTP files is determined by the locale. That's true in a very narrow >sense: for text mode and the distinction between ASCII and EBCDIC. >For the rest, FTP just transmits bytes. For non-TEXT mode FTP transfers, practice is that locale determines what conventions to apply to the document. TEXT-mode is ANSI X.34 or EBCDIC. It's not FTP making the distinction, but the client app that uses the data. For instance, if I used the "Edit..." command on a binary file in my FTP client, it would hand it over to my favourite text editor which would assume that it was a text file in MacRoman (actually, my FTP client would optionally translate ISO-8859-1=>MacRoman).
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