Editing GiFT (section)

== General ==
[[Image:GiFTcurs.png|thumb|200px|giFTcurs, a terminal front end for the giFT daemon]]
Clients implementing frontends for the giFT daemon communicate with its process using a lightweight [[network protocol]]. This allows the networking protocol code to be completely abstracted from the [[user interface]]. The giFT daemon is written using relatively [[cross-platform]] [[C (programming language)|C]] [[code]], which means that it can be compiled for and executed on a big variety of operating systems. There are several giFT [[GUI]] [[front end processor (program)|front-ends]] for [[Microsoft Windows]], [[Apple Macintosh]], and [[Unix-like]] [[operating system]]s.{{Citation needed|date=November 2019}}

The name ''giFT'' (giFT Internet File Transfer) is a so-called [[recursive acronym]], which means that it refers to itself in the expression for which it stands.

One of the biggest drawbacks of the giFT engine is that it currently lacks [[Unicode]] support, which prevents sharing files with Unicode characters in their file names (such as "ø","ä", "å", "é" etc.).<ref>{{Citation |last=S |first=Nikhilesh |title=nikki93/cgame |date=2024-09-12 |url=https://github.com/nikki93/cgame |access-date=2025-04-13}}</ref> Also, giFT lacks many features needed to use the [[gnutella#Gnutella features|gnutella]] network effectively.