Architcecture for winbindd client character conversion.

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Fri Aug 31 16:48:53 GMT 2007


On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 11:43:33AM +0200, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> 
> If I were you I would settle for UTF-8 in all windbind calls regardless
> of the unix charset, and have the clients (including
> pam_wibind,nss_winbind,smbd and ntlm_auth) convert it as needed to their
> locale. Adding negotiation is certainly overkill and not something I
> would recommend, other than possibly to negotiate between "as-is" unix
> charset and utf-8.

The problem with that is it forces wb client libraries to use iconv
- there's no way to do iconv handle management there. This seems very ugly to me. 

Jeremy.


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