proftpd, apache and netatalk

[Alexander Holst]

Hi List,

I have a strange problem running a webserver here, when uploading text 
files.

Our site uses Macromedia Flash objects, that load content text through 
plain text files, so we have some sort of "content management", by 
altering the text files instead of generating the Flash objects every 
time some content changes. In order for the umlauts to be displayed 
correctly [we are in Germany and need them to be displayed correctly], 
the text files have to be Windows Plain Text files. No prob, so far. 
When I upload them through ftp to my webserver, running 
proftpd-1.2.5rc1-1a, the character set changes somehow and all umlauts 
are screwd up. When I upload the text files via AFP/netatalk, no 
conversion takes place and umlauts stay the way they are supposed to be. 
Eh?

Now, our site has many files in different folders and it is a pain to do 
updates by hand through AppleFileSharing, I would like to use a tool 
like Golive, that provides incremental uploading. Where can I turn this 
character set conversion off? I tried setting proftpd to default to text 
and to binary. No matter which one I use, the character set gets 
converted somehow and all umlauts are displayed with the wrong 
characters, not only by the Flash objects, but also when opening them 
with a text editor.

We have an old web server running under MkLinux DR3, with wu-ftp, for 
test purposes and experience no probs uploading text files via ftp 
through Golive. The characters remain untouched. Is there some sort of 
magic in proftpd that I am overseeing?

Any help appreciated.

TIA,
Alex


Alexander Holst
Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences
<holst@fh-pforzheim.de>
ph: +49 [0]7231 28-6837
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