[Samba] help with charsets

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Wed Nov 19 17:38:32 GMT 2003


On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 07:13:10AM -0500, Preston wrote:
> El Miércoles, 19 de Noviembre de 2003 06:55 AM, Bjoern JACKE escribió:
> > 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.
> REnaming? There are hundreds of files.

Use find. man 1 find.

Jeremy.



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