[Samba] how to add unicode support to samba-2.0.6

[simo]

On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 09:53 +0800, jack dang wrote:
> it's a pity.
> Japanese Version of Samba 2.2.x you mentioned does not support UNICODE
> neither,
> because in the source code,  all the reply functions are based on
> single-byte string processing function such as strlen() , it cannot handle
> the incoming multibyte strings.
> 
> Should I really have to take pains to substitute all the single-byte string
> processing functions with mutibyte string processing function, and to do a
> ASCII-UNICODE string conversion everytime the server recieves an incoming
> packet that contains an ASCII encoded string?

This is what samba does today.

> Folks, any ideas of any simple ways?

no, it is probably better for you to try to remove functionality you do
not need in samba3 (samnba4 ?) to reduce the size of the binary than to
try and port an ancient version like 2.0.6 to unicode.

Simo.

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