DanielAmnis Posted January 15, 2013 Report Posted January 15, 2013 Hello there,Well as you know, Amazon's S3 storage service supports the Torrent protocol out-of-the-box. Great!But I'm having a reproducable problem with it (as you can see here https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=415666 ). In a nutshell, when the filename of the file that I'm downloading via torrent (*not* the filename of the .torrent file) contains any "fruity" characters - eg. Greek characters, Japanese characters, accented alphabetic characters - then torrent downloader clients will always fail to start downloading the file. If you change the name of the same file to something without said characters, it works!So basically I was wondering a few things:[] Is this a limitation of the BitTorrent protocol itself?[] Is this a quirk of Amazon's S3 torrent seeding?[] Generally, away from the world of S3, have any of you been able to make a downloadable torrent from a file whose name has international characters in it?[] <noob>I suppose I also would like to know what are some ways or tools to make a torrent file myself? (again away from S3). This would be a good way to test the protocol in isolation.</noob>Thanks for your time. I wonder how it works for you guys?- Daniel
DanielAmnis Posted January 15, 2013 Author Report Posted January 15, 2013 Awesome information Harold, thanks.I did think that it would be strange for a relatively new format not to work with non-ASCII characters.I'll try to create a few torrents myself and meanwhile I'll keep pestering the Amazon crew.Thanks.
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