Synchronizing Files with Accents in Filename

[Drdul]

I've run into a weird bug that doesn't appear to have been reported on this forum. When I synchronize a bunch of files, Yummy FTP doesn't appear to correctly recognize files that exist on both my Mac and the FTP server if they have an accent in the filename. In my case, the filenames all contain "Montréal" (that's an accent aigu or acute on the e). What I get in the Preview window are notes that a file "does not exist in the server directory" and "does not exist in the local directory." It's not a big deal, as there are only a few files so copying them back and forth every time doesn't take long, but I'm wondering if there's a way to get Yummy FTP to recognize the files as being the same and not copy them. Any suggestions would be appreciated!

[JD]

In the Bookmark for your server, go to the Advanced Options tab, select 'Unicode UTF-8' from the Encoding menu, then enable the Translate checkbox next to it and click Save.

This tells Yummy to use UTF-8 Normalization Form C which encodes such characters differently.

You might need to start afresh with the syncing because any files with accents transferred prior to this setting will be in a different form of UTF-8.

[Drdul]

@JD: Thanks! That fixed it, and the sync ran perfectly.

[JD]

Great! I knew it would