Matthew H. McKenzie

Not quite obsolete, and still necessary for Servers that do not store files as ASCII. While FTP is not obsolete as a protocol, it should still support ASCII. Users may...

It would be a shame to remove it completely. And it is not just the line endings, nowadays you are converting character widths as well. So single byte. Nodejs now...

That seems sound if the client side knows the server encoding. Fine if it is IBM037, not so fine if it is IBM500. The server side knows how to convert...