samba and utf-8-mac

[Jeremy Allison]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 03:41:30PM +0200, Guglielmo wrote:
> Alexander Bokovoy ha scritto:
> 
> >On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 03:48:49PM +0200, Guglielmo wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>Is there any way to get UTF-8-MAC support in samba? I have problems
> >>using osx samba cause it doesn't accept the colon ":" character using a
> >>samba server on linux.
> >>   
> >>
> >No, unless underlying system supports it.
> > 
> >
> 
> It supports it, I've compiled libiconv from darwin's site (iconv -l 
> shows utf-8 and utf-8-mac), but I see from samba logs (cannot convert 
> from utf-8 to utf-8-mac, trying conversion from ascii to ascii) that it 
> doesn't translate the encoding...

What is utf8-mac and why is it different from the utf8 standard ?

Jeremy.