Native character set support

[Andrej Borsenkow]

>
> My current plan is to add UNICODE throughout the internals of Samba
> by using UTF8, translating to microsoft unicode (little endian
> 16 bit unicode) and microsoft code page support (multi-byte character
> support) on entry and exit to the network.
>
> The only issue with doing this is that many UNIXs have
> native multi-byte character support (EUC for Japanese
> etc.) and UTF8 is not compatible with these.
>

Do you mean using Unicode internally for all texts in SAMBA? But then you
will need translation on (almost) every Unix - how many systems support
Unicode natively?

And the big question is, what to do with characters outside of host charset?

/andrej