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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">Hi Garming:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">Windows uses ANSI (extended-ASCII) to encode the GPT.INI file. This is why you see the E9 for accented e in the example you sent me.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">All the string in recent versions of Windows are in Unicode. When time comes to write it into the GPT.INI file, windows converts Unicode to ANSI based on whatever code page is loaded. For English and most
Latin languages it is Windows-1252 code page. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">At the time of group policy update, Windows client does not perform any checks for encoding and expects GPT.INI to be encoded in ANSI characters.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">The algorithm to convert Uincode to ANSI is documented in MS-UCODEREF in section “3.1.5.1.1.2 Pseudocode for Mapping a UTF-16 String to a Codepage String”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">I’ll file a bug against the MS-GPOL to fix the issue about UTF-8.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">Please let me know if this does not answer your question.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Obaid Farooqi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Escalation Engineer | Microsoft<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Exceeding your expectations is my highest priority. If you would like to provide feedback on your case you may contact my manager at ramagane at Microsoft dot com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="color:windowtext"> Obaid Farooqi
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 19, 2019 4:36 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Garming Sam <garming@catalyst.net.nz><br>
<b>Cc:</b> cifs-protocol@lists.samba.org; MSSolve Case Email <casemail@microsoft.com>; Denis CARDON <dcardon@tranquil.it><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [cifs-protocol] [REG:119021819676760] Group Policy GPT.INI file encoding<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">Hi Garming:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">You guess seems to spot on because the string in French is exact translation of “New Group Policy Object”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">I am close to resolution on this issue and will be in touch soon with my answer.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">Obaid Farooqi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">Escalation Engineer | Microsoft<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="color:windowtext"> Garming Sam <<a href="mailto:garming@catalyst.net.nz">garming@catalyst.net.nz</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 19, 2019 4:28 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Obaid Farooqi <<a href="mailto:obaidf@microsoft.com">obaidf@microsoft.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:cifs-protocol@lists.samba.org">cifs-protocol@lists.samba.org</a>; MSSolve Case Email <<a href="mailto:casemail@microsoft.com">casemail@microsoft.com</a>>; Denis CARDON <<a href="mailto:dcardon@tranquil.it">dcardon@tranquil.it</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [cifs-protocol] [REG:119021819676760] Group Policy GPT.INI file encoding<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Only Denis knows the exact details, but I expect that all he did was to have a French version of Windows, installed RSAT, opened the group policy editor and created a new GPO of that name (and copied the resulting file from the sysvol).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Garming<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 7/03/19 10:13 AM, Obaid Farooqi wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">Hi Garming:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">Thanks for the file.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">Is it possible to list the steps that were used to create this file?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Obaid Farooqi</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Escalation Engineer | Microsoft</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Exceeding your expectations is my highest priority. If you would like to provide feedback on your case you may contact my manager at ramagane at Microsoft dot com</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="color:windowtext"> Garming Sam
<a href="mailto:garming@catalyst.net.nz"><garming@catalyst.net.nz></a> <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 5, 2019 3:56 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Obaid Farooqi <a href="mailto:obaidf@microsoft.com"><obaidf@microsoft.com></a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:cifs-protocol@lists.samba.org">cifs-protocol@lists.samba.org</a>; MSSolve Case Email
<a href="mailto:casemail@microsoft.com"><casemail@microsoft.com></a>; Denis CARDON
<a href="mailto:dcardon@tranquil.it"><dcardon@tranquil.it></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [cifs-protocol] [REG:119021819676760] Group Policy GPT.INI file encoding</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I've been made aware that mail clients can mess with encodings, so here's the previous file zipped as well.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Garming<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 5/03/19 10:45 AM, Garming Sam via cifs-protocol wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<pre>Hi,<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre> <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Attached is an example from Denis. (It seems to read 'New Group Policy<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Object', so it looks like it even might be broken on the default<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>generated name)<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre> <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>The accented e appears to be at position E9 in the Latin-1 code page,<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>while the UTF-8 representation is supposed to be two bytes, C3 A9.<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre> <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre> <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Garming<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre> <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>On 1/03/19 6:18 AM, Obaid Farooqi wrote:<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>Hi Garming:<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Can you please send me a gpt.ini that has non-UTF8 characters?<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre> <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>-----Original Message-----<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>From: Obaid Farooqi <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 3:01 PM<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>To: Garming Sam <a href="mailto:garming@catalyst.net.nz"><garming@catalyst.net.nz></a><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Cc: MSSolve Case Email <a href="mailto:casemail@microsoft.com"><casemail@microsoft.com></a>; <a href="mailto:cifs-protocol@lists.samba.org">cifs-protocol@lists.samba.org</a>; Denis CARDON <a href="mailto:dcardon@tranquil.it"><dcardon@tranquil.it></a><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Subject: RE: [REG:119021819676760] Group Policy GPT.INI file encoding<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre> <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Hi Garming:<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>I'll help you with this issue and will be in touch as soon as I have an answer.<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre> <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Regards,<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Obaid Farooqi<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Escalation Engineer | Microsoft <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre> <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>-----Original Message-----<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>From: "Edgar Olougouna" <a href="mailto:edgaro@microsoft.com"><edgaro@microsoft.com></a> <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2019 8:43 PM<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>To: "Garming Sam" <a href="mailto:garming@catalyst.net.nz"><garming@catalyst.net.nz></a><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Cc: "MSSolve Case Email" <a href="mailto:casemail@microsoft.com"><casemail@microsoft.com></a>; <a href="mailto:cifs-protocol@lists.samba.org">"cifs-protocol@lists.samba.org"</a> <a href="mailto:cifs-protocol@lists.samba.org"><cifs-protocol@lists.samba.org></a>; "Denis CARDON" <a href="mailto:dcardon@tranquil.it"><dcardon@tranquil.it></a><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Subject: [REG:119021819676760] Group Policy GPT.INI file encoding<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre> <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Hello Garming, Denis, <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Glad to hear from you Denis. Thank you Garming for reaching out. <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>One of our team members will look into this and follow-up soon. <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre> <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Thanks, <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Edgar <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre> <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>-----Original Message----- <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>From: Garming Sam <a href="mailto:garming@catalyst.net.nz"><garming@catalyst.net.nz></a> <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2019 4:42 PM <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>To: Interoperability Documentation Help <a href="mailto:dochelp@microsoft.com"><dochelp@microsoft.com></a> <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Cc: <a href="mailto:cifs-protocol@lists.samba.org">cifs-protocol@lists.samba.org</a>; Denis CARDON <a href="mailto:dcardon@tranquil.it"><dcardon@tranquil.it></a> <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Subject: Group Policy GPT.INI file encoding <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre> <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Hi, <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre> <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>According to Denis, cc'd here, using a French RSAT appears to be<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>writing GPT.INI files which are not UTF-8, but instead using ISO-8859 to<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>represent accented characters (in the display name for a GPO).<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre> <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>[MS-GPOL] 2.2.4 GPO Search <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre> <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><a href="https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmsdn">https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmsdn</a>.<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Flibrary%2Fcc232507.aspx&data=02%7C01%7C%7C6e1b1f<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>a5c69d4f39b07008d6955b9580%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>636860617932917342&sdata=y21TJvHpxyDDeE5nHJW8j1PL2Sk46BWe6lj%2FwjLQkCM%3<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>D&reserved=0<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre> <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>"The gpt.ini file MUST be encoded in UTF-8..." <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre> <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>According the the documentation, it is required to be UTF-8, so<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>something doesn't quite add up here. Denis can probably reconfirm<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>himself, but any assistance reproducing or confirming this behaviour<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>would be appreciated. Assuming this is an issue, it's unclear what the<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>effect of other locales is.<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre> <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Cheers, <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre> <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Garming <o:p></o:p></pre>
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