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Japanese characters in host name for Chilkat FTP2

I went through Chilkat's forum where i see that forum is closed and I should post related question here on SO.

I am trying to connect to FTP server using FTP2 of chilkat, but it fails to connect to valid ftp server with valid credentials.

Host name does contain Japanese characters "w10jpnツ新".

My code looks like below:

 Ftp2 objFtp = new Ftp2();
 const string ChilkatFTPKey = ValidChilKatFTPKey;

 bool success = objFtp.UnlockComponent(ChilkatFTPKey);

 if (!success)
 {
     return;
 }

 objFtp.Hostname = _ftpServer;
 Log.Write("Host Name Input: " + _ftpServer); //here I see "w10jpnツ新"
 Log.Write("Host Name: " + objFtp.Hostname); //here I see "w10jpnツ新"

As you can see even after setting proper host name to objFtp.Hostname , that property is having garbage value and thus connection attempt fails.

How to fix it?

UPDATE

Initially this question was written to Chilkat technicians, but as now as there is no response from them, I m adding general tags to make it in reach of general people in Hope if they may know what can be possible reason behind such problem.

One thing i could think is if in setter of the property Hostname if they convert Japanese characters into something unwanted. But why would they do it.

Solution

  • I see the problem -- Chilkat is assuming that the Hostname is composed of Latin1 (us-ascii + accented European chars). I'll make the fix and I can provide a pre-release. Which version of the .NET Framework do you use, and which version of Visual Studio?