[Samba] Multiple encoding for file names [solved]

[Taoufik El Aoumari]

Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 04:32:11PM +0100, Taoufik El Aoumari wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a Samba server (Samba 3.0.28 running on GNU/Linux CentOS 5 and  
>> using an ext3 partition) which uses the "western europe" charset:
>> unix charset = CP850
>> display charset = CP850
>> dos charset = CP850
>>
>> When a user wants to rename a file to a name with Russian characters, it  
>> doesn't work and displays underscore characters instead.
>>
>> Is there a way to set up the Samba server to use multiple character  
>> encoding?
>>     
>
> Only if you change the backend encoding to utf8.
>
> Jeremy.
>   

Thanks, it worked with:
unix charset = UTF-8
display charset = UTF-8

I just had to change the old filenames encoding to utf8 using:
# convmv -f CP850 -t UTF-8 *