Browsing and code page.

Christopher R. Hertel crh at nts.umn.edu
Wed Jan 10 06:00:00 GMT 2001


For anyone who is interested, here is a document that provides some 
information on character encoding:

  http://www.hut.fi/u/jkorpela/chars.html

I'm just reading it myself...

Chris -)-----

> "Christopher R. Hertel" wrote:
> > 
> > Jeremy,
> > 
> > Can you give some more high-level detail on this?  Does it affect NetBIOS
> > naming as well?
> 
> Yes. All the libsmb/XXX functions are designed to take
> UNIX codepage format (ISO-8859-X) and then will convert
> to DOS character set (CP-850 etc.) for on the wire transport,
> then convert any strings back to UNIX character set on
> exit. If you don't do this then any extended characters
> in the NetBIOS naming are screwed up. The Japanese Samba
> users group tests this very thoroughly (as do I usually).
> 
> With all this new code in libsmb we need to be very careful
> to make sure this is not broken (it works in 2.0.7 and 2.2).
> 
> > Point me to docs???
> 
> The code is the doc :-).
> 
> Jeremy.
> 
> -- 
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Buying an operating system without source is like buying
> a self-assembly Space Shuttle with no instructions.
> --------------------------------------------------------
> 


-- 
Christopher R. Hertel -)-----                   University of Minnesota
crh at nts.umn.edu              Networking and Telecommunications Services

    Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them
    with your hands...you choose them as your guides, and following
    them you will reach your destiny.  --Carl Schultz





More information about the samba-technical mailing list