[Samba] samba & libiconv

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Tue Nov 3 15:10:29 MST 2009


On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 11:01:24PM +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 01:43:42PM -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > No. Samba needs libiconv to do the utf8 <--> UCS2 translations for
> > clients.
> 
> Hmm. I thought we do *that* one ourselves. I thought we need
> libiconv just for the other charsets.

Ohh - yes you're right - we do several builtin, by preference
too. I thought we used to always call iconv by preference and
then fall back if we couldn't find it, but that's not right.

We have:

"UTF8", "ASCII", "ISO-8859-1" buit in...

Thanks !

Jeremy.


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