Japanese character support?

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Tue Feb 24 08:22:48 GMT 2004


On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 11:47, Tom Dickson wrote:
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> I've read the little snipped in the SAMBA HOWTO about Japanese character
> support.
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> Is there a more detailed explanation of the current progress in Samba?
> Preferably not in Japanese? We are interested in potentially helping to
> move forward in this area.

Samba 3.0 uses unicode, so in particularly if you are so sensible as to
use UTF-8 as your 'unix charset', it should work well.

If you look in the archives you will find that some work is being done
in verifying this support, but it's apparently working pretty well.

Andrew Bartlett

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