On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 21:50 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Package: samba > Version: 3.0.21a-4 > Severity: minor > Tags: l10n upstream > > Hi, > > Currently, one has to manually set display charset and unix charset in > smb.conf for getting non-ascii letters working. > > I don't understand why display charset currently defaults to ASCII > and unix charset defaults to UTF8. Can't they just both default to > the current locale ? (particularly display charset). This would make > accented letters work in hardly every usual case, and possibly fix some > of the charset bugs that were reported against samba.
Certainly display charset should do this. However we can't just change 'unix charset' on a whim. We must rename every file on the system at the same time... > Note smbmount should pass to the kernel the current locale charset too. > It would possibly make people working on the same machine but with > different charsets be happy too. Until they try to access a file somebody else mounted. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Student Network Administrator, Hawker College http://hawkerc.net
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