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We have a NAS device out on the market but our Asian customers are not very
satisfied about this product since it does not support filenames that uses
multibyte characters over the HTTP and FTP protocol. (IIS)
Is there any workaround to have the IIS to support downloading of filenames
that uses multibyte characters? Do we need an Asian version of Windows XP to
support this?

Thanks ,

Per Dunberg
LaCie Group SA
http://www.lacie.com
 
I don't know if that will help but you could try to appropriately set
"Regional and Language Options"

Regards,
Stefan
 
Hi Stefan,

Thanks for your suggestion but it does not help to solve this issue.
The problem comes from the English version of IIS 5.1 which does not support
multibyte characters in filenames. For example, the inbuilt "Directory
browsing" function displays multibyte characters as a "?". So, I thought
maybe I could just write my own directory browsing page which is a simple
task but it still did not work. I analyzed the traffic using Ethereal
(www.ethereal.com) and the GET request is URLEncoded and it corresponds to
the Japanese characters but the IIS 5.1 just returns "object not found".
I tried with the Japanese MUI and to set the system to use Japanese as
default language but it makes no difference. I also tried replacing the IIS
binaries to use the Japanese files but I could not make it work.

IIS 6 has no problems to handle multibyte characters but IIS 6 is not
available for Windows XP. The latest version of Apache's webserver works
without problems but it does not support ASP pages and all our Administration
pages are written in VB/ASP. However, this still leaves me with the problem
that the MS FTP server has the same problem with multibyte characters.

If someone from Microsoft reads this please tell me where I can download a
Unicode compiled version of the IIS 5.1, that would be great ;)

Thanks,

Per
 
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