File name encoding

Current Situation

• JADE has a parameter FileNameEncoding but it is never used.

Desired Behaviour

• JADE should convert the character sets used for file names between source host, jump host and target host.
• JADE parameterization
  • JADE makes use of the following encoding parameters:
    • source_filename_encoding
    • target_filename_encoding
    • jump_filename_encoding (if a jump host is used)
  • These parameters are optional, however, if one of them is used then the other parameters have to be specified as well.
  • The file name will only be converted between different character sets if the parameters source_filename_encoding and target_filename_encoding are specified (resp. jump_filename_encoding if a jump host is used).

Maintainer Notes

• JADE reads the value for the LANG variable from the user's environment to support a wider character set, e.g. German Umlauts
• The effectiveness of the LANG variable also depends on the Unix/Linux system, e.g. some systems need extensive configuration and extra package installation such as SunOS.
• JADE will reads the setting of the LANG variable from the user's environment
• The following parameters will not be implemented
  • source_filename_encoding
  • target_filename_encoding
  • jump_filename_encoding