[Samba] unix charset = LOCALE

Mi mi.lists at alma.ch
Tue Jul 12 22:49:35 GMT 2005


juliano wrote:

> Andrew Bartlett said once that 'unix charset = LOCALE' means to force 
> samba to read 'LANG=' from environment.
>
>> echo $LANG
>> en_US
>
Well, en_US is not UTF8

> When i restart smbd/nmbd all my files inside all shares change their 
> names.

In which application? On Windows clients? How are the files viewed on 
Unix? In the shell? In KDE or Gnome, if you have it installed?

Can you create new files on Linux correctly?

How are the characters changed?

Do you get UTF8 displayed as plain 8 bit (every accented letter shown as 
2 accented letters, the first one often being an uppercase accented "A")?

What characters do you get, and what should they be?

It's hard to guess what is wrong without having some more info.

Have you tried unix chaset = UTF8 in smb.conf?



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