Architcecture for winbindd client character conversion.

[simo]

On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 13:44 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 08:22:00AM -0400, simo wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 07:41 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > > So, an *old* Ubuntu system could be non UTF-8 by default if it just
> > > has been upgraded since installed, but a new one is UTF-8 by default.
> > 
> > Yes, it ended up we were talking of an old system. In any case it was
> > just an example, the logic is that if a distribution does not use utf8
> > it should also change unix charset to match the user environment and the
> > locale files are written down into.
> 
> It's already moderately fiddly for OS installers to set the locale in
> all the right places; the fewer configuration files that need to be
> changed to match (and hence potentially get out of sync later) the
> better. Is there no way this can be detected from the locale instead,
> assuming that the init script that starts samba arranges for samba to be
> started with the system default locale?

Yes you may think of using "unix charset = LOCALE" in your default
smb.conf file, but beware of root users running smbd by hand in a
different locale.

Simo.

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