Tag: FileZilla

Unicode characters in filename leads to "failed to convert command to 8 bit charset" in FileZilla

Apr 3, 2009

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by

Yongho Kim 김용호

in english, techie

On Windows XP, I had converted 150 low-resolution (160×120, 10fps) Quicktime MOV files to FLV files, and was trying to upload them through FTP using FileZilla 3.1.2 One of the files somehow had unicode characters inside the filename: “07-82.mov07-82.flv”, which produced the below error: 08:37:40 Status: Starting upload of D:docsGoogle Talk Received Filesvideos07-82.mov07-82.flv (bla bla)…