: What is the true filename on my server? I have created a pdf under the name André.pdf on my server. However, I am not sure if this is the actual filename. I first assumed André.pdf is

@Heady270

FileZilla has a Wiki page about this issue with character sets

To paraphrase, it says that:


FTP originally allowed only ASCII characters
Some servers and clients violated the spec and implemented international characters with a locally chosen character set
The FTP protocol was changed to allow UTF-8 instead of just ASCII
FileZilla uses the UTF-8 character set and only UTF-8 despite that some servers may (incorrectly) use something else


You need to change your FTP server or reconfigure it to use the UTF-8 character set in order to be compatible with FileZilla.

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@Turnbaugh106

The real filename would be exactly the same filename you originally named it. Your only limitation is that set out by the operating system and the filesystem.


OK, so looking at Comparison of file
systems if
you only care about the main players file systems:


Windowz (FAT32, NTFS): Any Unicode except NUL and /
Mac(HFS, HFS+): Any valid Unicode except :
Linux(ext[2-4]): Any byte except NUL


so any byte except NUL, /, : and you can't have files/folders
call . or ..


(Source)

Applications may use CHARSETS but this isn't renaming the file locally, its simply translating the file, the original file renames unchanged.

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