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Configuring Pure-FTPD with UTF-8 

Installation 

Fetch, compile and install Pure-FTPD (http://www.pureftpd.org/project/pure-ftpd), 

wget http://download.pureftpd.org/pub/pure-ftpd/releases/pure-ftpd-1.0.36.tar.gz

tar xzf pure-ftpd-1.0.36.tar.gz

cd pure-ftpd-1.0.36/

./configure --with-rfc2640

make clean

make

make install

(Re)start the stand-alone daemon, 

pkill pure-ftpd

/usr/local/sbin/pure-ftpd &

Connect through telnet to the FTP server and check it has the 'UTF8' feature. To do that, send this command, 

FEAT

You're ready to go with an UTF-8 capable FTP client e.g. Filezilla FTP Client. 

References 

http://download.pureftpd.org/pub/pure-ftpd/doc/README 

http://wiki.filezilla-project.org/Character_Set#UTF8_feature_negotiation