----- Oorspronkelijk bericht ----- From: Volker Lendecke <[email protected]> To: theHog <[email protected]> Date: 05-Nov-2009 10:29 Subject: Re: Re: [Samba] samba & libiconv
> On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 09:49:02PM +0100, theHog wrote: > > So, is the following correct? > > > > - Samba 3 uses UTF8 on the filesystem side (read&write filenames) by default > > for linux filsystems (ext3, ext4, reiserfs). > > - On the client side Samba translates filenames from the client encoding to > > UTF8 and vice versa. > > - Modern linux distributions use UTF8 encoding > > - Windows XP/Vista/7 uses ... UCS2 ? > > - MAC OS uses ... UTF8 ? > > > > And thus one does not need iconv unless Samba needs to write/read file > > systems that have a filename encoding that is not built-in in Samba (e.g. DOS > > codepages, ISO-8859-15, etc.) > > Sounds right, although I'm not sure the build system allows > this properly. Samba 3.3.8 builds OK without libiconv. The build system gives a warning that filename charset support is limited though. theHog. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
