Cannot cd in ftp shell because it does not recognize character

[tsunix-pdm-1]

Hello,

Inside an ftp shell I cannot cd to a directory, because it does not recognize the character " ó " ; instead it appears blurred  (like a small array of points). This is the directory:

ftp> dir
200 PORT command successful.
125 Data connection already open; Transfer starting.
10-20-16 08:20AM <DIR> Configuraci▒n  

Copy and paste in an HP-UX kshell it looks this way: Configuracib^Rn

It seems that in ftp shell, escaping or wildcards do not work. Any idea on how to cd to that directory inside an ftp shell ?

Kind regards,

[ranganath ramachandra]

Perhaps it is obvious but I'm guessing you're not able to type that character.

You could try running the ftp session within a GNU screen or tmux terminal (with utf8 on) and copy-paste the text.

This is based on my vague speculation that your current terminal does not support unicode and displays the wrong character instead, then when you copy-paste (with the mouse), it is the wrong character which gets pasted.  So on a terminal emulator that supports unicode, you should be able to see that character (with appropriate fonts available etc). Then, you should be able to copy-paste it at least with the screen/tmux copy-paste (not with the mouse) functionality.

If that doesn't work, another ftp client like GNU ftp or lftp which provides tab-based filename completion might be worth a try.

[tsunix-pdm-1]

Hi,

It is an ftp session from an HP-UX system to a windows system. It uses the ftp client provided by HP-UX...

Kind Regards,

[ranganath ramachandra]

I'm not very sure of what I'm suggesting, so you might want to try these only if you have no other choice.

It is possible to login to an HP-UX system through a GNU screen terminal on another system - linux, hp-ux etc (not sure of windows). You could then start the ftp session from there.

Also, open-source ftp alternatives like cFTP are available for HP-UX on the HP-UX connect website.

[Dennis Handly]

> instead it appears blurred  (like a small array of points).

That's the char used to indicate that there is no translation for the char you want.  I forgot its name.

It's not quite like:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specials_(Unicode_block)

Ah:  http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2580.pdf

\xe2\x96\x92

2592 ▒ MEDIUM SHADE
= speckles fill, dotted fill
• 50%
• used in mapping to cp949

For example using Linux and Putty, I have to set putty translation to UTF-8 and for Linux, I have to set the locale to pick one with UTF-8 chars.  And then set LC_CTYPE to that locale, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8.

So if you can get your ftp to display it correctly using "ls", you're on your way.

I got this to work on HP-UX using LC_CTYPE=C.utf8 with lower case PI.  I had to make sure "stty -istrip" was set.

But I was using ftp to my own system and the directory was created with UTF-8 chars.  Not sure if Window's would be different?