unicode strings

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Andrew Tridgell wrote:

> > Is there any plan to use unicode strings internally to samba ?
> 
> possibly :-)
> 
> I personally don't like them very much, but we do support multi-byte
> character sets (esp. Kanji) and maybe we'll do unicode properly some
> day. It isn't really a high priority though. 

jean francois is expanding the set of unicode manipulation strings
available.  the dce/rpc code currently does everything with unicode
strings, and has to convert to 8-bit chars when talking to samba.

luke