CVS update: samba/source/param

[Andrew Bartlett]

Tim Potter wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 09:42:19PM -0800, Andrew Tridgell wrote:

> > > I'm just wondering what setting the default unix charset to utf8 actually
> > > does?
> >
> > it means that when a client sends us a unicode char we can store it
> > and fetch it back accurately from the filesystem. That means for
> > clients that do unicode (all Microsoft clients) Samba will "out of the
> > box" support all chars in many applications.
> 
> OK - that makes sense.  I've got a feeling that a iso8859-1 environment
> and utf8 filesystem will fight with each other.  Perhaps the client
> routines need to convert their input in to utf8 before passing it on
> to the rpc marshalling routines?

I think this is what the 'display charset' idea is for, but I might be
wrong.

Andrew Bartlett

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