samba and utf-8-mac

Alexander Bokovoy ab at samba.org
Sat Jun 18 08:23:29 GMT 2005


On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 09:40:55AM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > >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 ?
It is utf-8 varient which differs in that all composite characters are
decomposed.
http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1150table.html
http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.4.1/libiconv-13/libiconv/lib/utf8mac.h

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