[Samba] Multiple codepage support

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Wed Oct 23 13:22:41 GMT 2002


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On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Barry Priest wrote:

> I need to be able to support multiple languages for separate users:
> english, simplified chinese, traditional chinese, and korean han.  Is it
> correct that under 2.2.x that I can only get one of those at a time,
> using the smb.conf options 'character set' and 'client code page" ?  
> And that under 3.x with unicode support I will be to have them use
> whatever alternate character set they wish?

Correct.  On 2.2.x you get English plus one other language
(because standard ASCII characters are a subset of the other 
codepages from what I understand).  3.0's UNICODE support
will correct this deficiency.



cheers, jerry
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