Character handling

[Frej Rasmussen]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: abartlet at pcug.org.au [mailto:abartlet at pcug.org.au]
> Sent: 11. januar 2002 23:54
> To: Frej Rasmussen
> Cc: samba-technical at samba.org
> Subject: Re: Character handling
> 
> Frej Rasmussen wrote:
> >
> > The character handling doesnt seem to be quite perfect for danish 
> > letters.
> 
> Can you confirm as per IRC that this is with the Samba 3.0 alpha 
> series?
> 

It's samba 3.0 alpha series.

> > We have three extra letters =).
> > They can be written if special char's isnt available like this.
> >
> > 'æ' ~ 'ae'
> > 'ø' ~ 'oe'
> > 'å' ~ 'aa'
> >
> > The problem is when i am creating/renaming a file or dir using a 
> > samba client, either smbclient or win2k&xp samba translates the 3 
> > letters in to standard latin letters (same each time, but looks 
> > random).
> >
> > so making the following directories æ,å,ø would show up as f,x,e. So

> > the word 'øl' (beer) would show up as 'el'. In fact i can delete the

> > dir with "rmdir el" or "rmdir øl" with the smbclient (or win2k).
> >
> > In a unix shell the dir has also been named 'el' and can therefore 
> > only be removed by "rmdir el". If i make a dir 'øl' in the unix 
> > shell i can
> > (ofcourse) only use "rmdir øl". However this dir really shows up
correct
> > as 'øl'. BUT it can be removed using both 'el' or  'øl' via
> > windows/smbclient.
> >
> > Frej Rasmussen.
> 
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Frej Rasmussen