[Samba] help with charsets

Bjoern JACKE samba at j3e.de
Wed Nov 19 13:02:09 GMT 2003


On 2003-11-19 at 07:13 -0500 Preston sent off:
>> 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.
>REnaming? There are hundreds of files.

that's why I suggested to use convmv.

convmv -r -f cp850 -t utf8 /path/to/where/files/are

that's it.

Bjoern



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