samba-head bug relating to windows special chars (1/2)

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Wed Nov 6 09:36:00 GMT 2002


On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 19:22, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 jra at dp.samba.org wrote:
> > > Oh. Do you have the unix character set set to iso8859-1 ? I
> > > don't think that character set has a 1/2 character. Try
> > > setting it to utf8 and see if this fixes it.
> > 
> > Hmmm, Under FreeBSD, that character is encoded as 0xC2 0xBD while under 
> > Linux it is encoded as 0xAB ...
> > 
> > So, I think it might be a failure to do with the creation of the file in 
> > the first place ...
> 
> OK, problem solved. The file name was created under Samba 2.2.x, and then 
> the profiles were accessed under Samba-head.
> 
> The translation schemes were different.

This is going to bite us badly, as sites upgrade.  Is there any way we
can make this more automatic?

Andrew Bartlett

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