Architcecture for winbindd client character conversion.

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 10:54:15AM +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> 
> Even if this would be ok, doesn't this add something coming
> from the same corner where "winbind use default domain" also
> sits?

No :-).

> Can't we keep this in the NSS libs?

No again :-).

> Metze is rewriting
> the winbind pipe anyway to use auto-generated marshalling,
> so this will change anyway.

It's very heavyweight to add into the NSS libs. Clients
expect to use strings in their current locale charset.
If we know what this is we can respond appropriately.

It's a bug we've had for a long time.

Jeremy.