Architcecture for winbindd client character conversion.

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 12:34:18PM -0400, simo wrote:
> > Right now, on Ubuntu for example, USA English users can't
> > log in with usernames that contain characters in the charset
> > greater than 127.
> > 
> > Why ? Because the default locale is en_US, and winbindd defaults
> > to unix charset of utf8.

> The bug is in Ubuntu not using utf8 as their default locale or in Ubuntu
> not setting unix charset = iso8859-1 in smb.conf

I'm puzzled by this claim.  Hasn't Ubuntu been using en_US.UTF-8 as their
default locale for English installs for several releases now?

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