Luigi said:
Well, actually, I guess that I have already done it because I am posting in
UTF-8
No you have not. You would know if you did. It is not a trivial exercise.
If your newsreader is capable of UTF-8 it does *not* mean your underlying
operating system is so capable. Your browser is also capable of UTF-8 (if
you have let it download the required language pack) and probably unicode
and others (you *have* downloaded or accepted language packs because your
site is in multpile European languages). Your operating system (98) is *not*
unicode compliant and your notpad and your wordpad are not[1].
Well, actually, I said that because I tested it!
Er, in fact it is the other way round. Your ftp program is not compatible
with XP is a more correct statement.
If your ftp program, whatever it is, does not run on XP then it is broken.
Severly. Replace it with a program that works.
There is a new version of the software which seems to be compatible but I do
not know, yet, how to buy it without using credit cards, that mean by cash
or by invoice.
Yeah, whatever. Paranoia. I buy something every week via internet and using
my credit card. I also buy petrol at the local petrol shop with my credit
card and that is *far* less secure. But you should know about that, with
your https and all
Anyway who actually pays money for an ftp program these days. There are
hundreds of them available freeware. &deity, it would take me less than an
hour to write one myself. That reminds me, I had to write an ftp client to
fit into one of my software packages about ten years ago. Took me, actualy,
two hours then. These days .NET comes with a file system that does not
distinguish between the local file system, ftp, http, telnet and a couple of
other things. Just open the file dammit Jim!
[1] Must fire up a 98 notepad (I have one laying around somewhere) to
confirm this
Cheers
Richard.
