[Samba] 2.2.7 - 3.0.14a arabic file name dispaly

Björn JACKE bjacke at SerNet.DE
Tue Aug 16 12:48:37 GMT 2005


Hi,
On 2005-08-10 at 11:45 +0400 Ahmed Mahmoud Ibnouf sent off:
> After migrating from 2.2.7 to 3.0.14a arabic file names were displayed in 
> Japaneese charcters. I used convmv -f cp850 -t utf8 but still unreadable 
> characters.

cp850 is probably not the correct codepage. Try to find out the 
correct codepage for your region (might be cp1256 or cp864 ?). 
cp850 is the western european (ASCII+Umlauts etc.) codepage.

Bjoern
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