[VFS] CAP module

Bjoern Fernhomberg lists at fernhomberg.de
Thu Aug 28 15:34:59 GMT 2003


> > This is already being worked on, as we need it for AFP3 support anyway.
> > Iconv is not much help, as it does not provide round trip encoding for
> > most mac charsets.  Any help appreciated :-)
> Well, then it needs to be fixed at iconv side so that everybody would
> benefit of it. I see no reason to populate every project with their own
> implementation of charset handling :)

Agreed, but Apple uses several corporate zone Unicode characters, that
neither libiconv nor glibc iconv support (e.g. Apple Logo) yet, as they are
not part of the Unicode standard.

> Did you see what we have in Samba 3.0 for iconv support?

Yes. We're actually using some of this code :-). We're basically just
providing our own mappings for mac charsets.





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