diff --git a/SftpFrontend.md b/SftpFrontend.md index 4553a32..fdfef94 100644 --- a/SftpFrontend.md +++ b/SftpFrontend.md @@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ It may not be entirely clear to users whether a particular Gnome app is using GI The SFTP frontend encodes all filenames as UTF-8 when communicating with the client. Support for displaying and copying non-ASCII filenames is likely to vary between clients. If you are using a filesystem that represents names as UTF-8 (including via sshfs), then it should just work, but please report your experience with this. Note that SFTP currently does not perform any [Unicode normalization](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence) (so for example, filenames copied from a Mac OS X filesystem will remain in NFD); this is likely to change in future. +Many clients do not convert filenames to UTF-8; see ticket #1089. + ### Performance