[Samba] help with charsets

Bjoern JACKE samba at j3e.de
Wed Nov 19 11:55:46 GMT 2003


On 2003-11-18 at 07:52 -0500 Roger D. Vargas sent off:
>
>I need urgent help with a charset problem. After upgrading to samba 3 my users 
>can use files with spanish characters (á ñ). The name is truncated at the 
>first "strange" character and the rest of the name is replaced by _. Users 
>cant access the file or rename it.
>After digging the docs I found that I must specify the correct dos charset. 
>Can somebody tell me the carset name to enable this characters?

more important might be "unix charset". Try cp850 if you did not have 
"character set" set in samba 2.x. Better is renaming all files to 
utf-8 with convmv and leave the "unix charset" default which is 
utf-8.

Bjoern



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