[cifs-protocol] [REG:119021819676760] Group Policy GPT.INI file encoding

[Garming Sam]

I've been made aware that mail clients can mess with encodings, so
here's the previous file zipped as well.

Cheers,

Garming

On 5/03/19 10:45 AM, Garming Sam via cifs-protocol wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Attached is an example from Denis. (It seems to read 'New Group Policy
> Object', so it looks like it even might be broken on the default
> generated name)
>
> The accented e appears to be at position E9 in the Latin-1 code page,
> while the UTF-8 representation is supposed to be two bytes, C3 A9.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Garming
>
> On 1/03/19 6:18 AM, Obaid Farooqi wrote:
>> Hi Garming:
>> Can you please send me a gpt.ini that has non-UTF8 characters?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Obaid Farooqi 
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 3:01 PM
>> To: Garming Sam <garming at catalyst.net.nz>
>> Cc: MSSolve Case Email <casemail at microsoft.com>; cifs-protocol at lists.samba.org; Denis CARDON <dcardon at tranquil.it>
>> Subject: RE: [REG:119021819676760] Group Policy GPT.INI file encoding
>>
>> Hi Garming:
>> I'll help you with this issue and will be in touch as soon as I have an answer.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Obaid Farooqi
>> Escalation Engineer | Microsoft 
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: "Edgar Olougouna" <edgaro at microsoft.com> 
>> Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2019 8:43 PM
>> To: "Garming Sam" <garming at catalyst.net.nz>
>> Cc: "MSSolve Case Email" <casemail at microsoft.com>; "cifs-protocol at lists.samba.org" <cifs-protocol at lists.samba.org>; "Denis CARDON" <dcardon at tranquil.it>
>> Subject: [REG:119021819676760] Group Policy GPT.INI file encoding
>>
>> Hello Garming, Denis, 
>> Glad to hear from you Denis. Thank you Garming for reaching out. 
>> One of our team members will look into this and follow-up soon. 
>>
>> Thanks, 
>> Edgar 
>>
>> -----Original Message----- 
>> From: Garming Sam <garming at catalyst.net.nz> 
>> Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2019 4:42 PM 
>> To: Interoperability Documentation Help <dochelp at microsoft.com> 
>> Cc: cifs-protocol at lists.samba.org; Denis CARDON <dcardon at tranquil.it> 
>> Subject: Group Policy GPT.INI file encoding 
>>
>> Hi, 
>>
>> According to Denis, cc'd here, using a French RSAT appears to be
>> writing GPT.INI files which are not UTF-8, but instead using ISO-8859 to
>> represent accented characters (in the display name for a GPO).
>>
>> [MS-GPOL] 2.2.4 GPO Search 
>>
>> https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmsdn.
>> microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Flibrary%2Fcc232507.aspx&data=02%7C01%7C%7C6e1b1f
>> a5c69d4f39b07008d6955b9580%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C
>> 636860617932917342&sdata=y21TJvHpxyDDeE5nHJW8j1PL2Sk46BWe6lj%2FwjLQkCM%3
>> D&reserved=0
>>
>> "The gpt.ini file MUST be encoded in UTF-8..." 
>>
>> According the the documentation, it is required to be UTF-8, so
>> something doesn't quite add up here. Denis can probably reconfirm
>> himself, but any assistance reproducing or confirming this behaviour
>> would be appreciated. Assuming this is an issue, it's unclear what the
>> effect of other locales is.
>>
>> Cheers, 
>>
>> Garming 
>>
>>
>>
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