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diff --git a/docs/htmldocs/unicode.html b/docs/htmldocs/unicode.html index d11c9e1c34..0c5bb01d13 100644 --- a/docs/htmldocs/unicode.html +++ b/docs/htmldocs/unicode.html @@ -1,370 +1,60 @@ -<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> -<HTML -><HEAD -><TITLE ->Unicode/Charsets</TITLE -><META -NAME="GENERATOR" -CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK -REL="HOME" -TITLE="SAMBA Project Documentation" -HREF="samba-howto-collection.html"><LINK -REL="UP" -TITLE="Advanced Configuration" -HREF="optional.html"><LINK -REL="PREVIOUS" -TITLE="Securing Samba" -HREF="securing-samba.html"><LINK -REL="NEXT" -TITLE="Appendixes" -HREF="appendixes.html"></HEAD -><BODY -CLASS="CHAPTER" -BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" -TEXT="#000000" -LINK="#0000FF" -VLINK="#840084" -ALINK="#0000FF" -><DIV -CLASS="NAVHEADER" -><TABLE -SUMMARY="Header navigation table" -WIDTH="100%" -BORDER="0" -CELLPADDING="0" -CELLSPACING="0" -><TR -><TH -COLSPAN="3" -ALIGN="center" ->SAMBA Project Documentation</TH -></TR -><TR -><TD -WIDTH="10%" -ALIGN="left" -VALIGN="bottom" -><A -HREF="securing-samba.html" -ACCESSKEY="P" ->Prev</A -></TD -><TD -WIDTH="80%" -ALIGN="center" -VALIGN="bottom" -></TD -><TD -WIDTH="10%" -ALIGN="right" -VALIGN="bottom" -><A -HREF="appendixes.html" -ACCESSKEY="N" ->Next</A -></TD -></TR -></TABLE -><HR -ALIGN="LEFT" -WIDTH="100%"></DIV -><DIV -CLASS="CHAPTER" -><H1 -><A -NAME="UNICODE" -></A ->Chapter 26. Unicode/Charsets</H1 -><DIV -CLASS="TOC" -><DL -><DT -><B ->Table of Contents</B -></DT -><DT ->26.1. <A -HREF="unicode.html#AEN4132" ->What are charsets and unicode?</A -></DT -><DT ->26.2. <A -HREF="unicode.html#AEN4141" ->Samba and charsets</A -></DT -><DT ->26.3. <A -HREF="unicode.html#AEN4160" ->Conversion from old names</A -></DT -><DT ->26.4. <A -HREF="unicode.html#AEN4168" ->Japanese charsets</A -></DT -></DL -></DIV -><DIV -CLASS="SECT1" -><H1 -CLASS="SECT1" -><A -NAME="AEN4132" ->26.1. What are charsets and unicode?</A -></H1 -><P ->Computers communicate in numbers. In texts, each number will be +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> +<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter 25. Unicode/Charsets</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.59.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="SAMBA Project Documentation"><link rel="up" href="optional.html" title="Part III. Advanced Configuration"><link rel="previous" href="securing-samba.html" title="Chapter 24. Securing Samba"><link rel="next" href="locking.html" title="Chapter 26. File and Record Locking"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 25. Unicode/Charsets</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="securing-samba.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Part III. Advanced Configuration</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="locking.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title"><a name="unicode"></a>Chapter 25. Unicode/Charsets</h2></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author">Jelmer R. Vernooij</h3><div class="affiliation"><span class="orgname">The Samba Team<br></span><div class="address"><p><tt><<a href="mailto:jelmer@samba.org">jelmer@samba.org</a>></tt></p></div></div></div></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author">TAKAHASHI Motonobu</h3><div class="affiliation"><div class="address"><p><tt><<a href="mailto:monyo@home.monyo.com">monyo@home.monyo.com</a>></tt></p></div></div></div></div><div><p class="pubdate">25 March 2003</p></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><a href="unicode.html#id2901255">What are charsets and unicode?</a></dt><dt><a href="unicode.html#id2901324">Samba and charsets</a></dt><dt><a href="unicode.html#id2901414">Conversion from old names</a></dt><dt><a href="unicode.html#id2901459">Japanese charsets</a></dt></dl></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2901255"></a>What are charsets and unicode?</h2></div></div><p> +Computers communicate in numbers. In texts, each number will be translated to a corresponding letter. The meaning that will be assigned -to a certain number depends on the <SPAN -CLASS="emphasis" -><I -CLASS="EMPHASIS" ->character set(charset)</I -></SPAN -> that is used. +to a certain number depends on the <span class="emphasis"><em>character set(charset) +</em></span> that is used. A charset can be seen as a table that is used to translate numbers to letters. Not all computers use the same charset (there are charsets with German umlauts, Japanese characters, etc). Usually a charset contains 256 characters, which means that storing a character with it takes -exactly one byte. </P -><P ->There are also charsets that support even more characters, +exactly one byte. </p><p> +There are also charsets that support even more characters, but those need twice(or even more) as much storage space. These -charsets can contain <B -CLASS="COMMAND" ->256 * 256 = 65536</B -> characters, which +charsets can contain <b>256 * 256 = 65536</b> characters, which is more then all possible characters one could think of. They are called multibyte charsets (because they use more then one byte to -store one character). </P -><P ->A standardised multibyte charset is unicode, info available at -<A -HREF="http://www.unicode.org/" -TARGET="_top" ->www.unicode.org</A ->. -Big advantage of using a multibyte charset is that you only need one; no +store one character). +</p><p> +A standardised multibyte charset is unicode, info is available at +<a href="http://www.unicode.org/" target="_top">www.unicode.org</a>. +A big advantage of using a multibyte charset is that you only need one; no need to make sure two computers use the same charset when they are -communicating.</P -><P ->Old windows clients used to use single-byte charsets, named +communicating. +</p><p>Old windows clients used to use single-byte charsets, named 'codepages' by microsoft. However, there is no support for negotiating the charset to be used in the smb protocol. Thus, you have to make sure you are using the same charset when talking to an old client. -Newer clients (Windows NT, 2K, XP) talk unicode over the wire.</P -></DIV -><DIV -CLASS="SECT1" -><H1 -CLASS="SECT1" -><A -NAME="AEN4141" ->26.2. Samba and charsets</A -></H1 -><P ->As of samba 3.0, samba can (and will) talk unicode over the wire. Internally, -samba knows of three kinds of character sets: </P -><P -></P -><DIV -CLASS="VARIABLELIST" -><DL -><DT ->unix charset</DT -><DD -><P -> This is the charset used internally by your operating system. - The default is <CODE -CLASS="CONSTANT" ->ASCII</CODE ->, which is fine for most +Newer clients (Windows NT, 2K, XP) talk unicode over the wire. +</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2901324"></a>Samba and charsets</h2></div></div><p> +As of samba 3.0, samba can (and will) talk unicode over the wire. Internally, +samba knows of three kinds of character sets: +</p><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">unix charset</span></dt><dd><p> + This is the charset used internally by your operating system. + The default is <tt>ASCII</tt>, which is fine for most systems. - </P -></DD -><DT ->display charset</DT -><DD -><P ->This is the charset samba will use to print messages - on your screen. It should generally be the same as the <B -CLASS="COMMAND" ->unix charset</B ->. - </P -></DD -><DT ->dos charset</DT -><DD -><P ->This is the charset samba uses when communicating with + </p></dd><dt><span class="term">display charset</span></dt><dd><p>This is the charset samba will use to print messages + on your screen. It should generally be the same as the <b>unix charset</b>. + </p></dd><dt><span class="term">dos charset</span></dt><dd><p>This is the charset samba uses when communicating with DOS and Windows 9x clients. It will talk unicode to all newer clients. The default depends on the charsets you have installed on your system. - Run <B -CLASS="COMMAND" ->testparm -v | grep "dos charset"</B -> to see + Run <b>testparm -v | grep "dos charset"</b> to see what the default is on your system. - </P -></DD -></DL -></DIV -></DIV -><DIV -CLASS="SECT1" -><H1 -CLASS="SECT1" -><A -NAME="AEN4160" ->26.3. Conversion from old names</A -></H1 -><P ->Because previous samba versions did not do any charset conversion, + </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2901414"></a>Conversion from old names</h2></div></div><p>Because previous samba versions did not do any charset conversion, characters in filenames are usually not correct in the unix charset but only -for the local charset used by the DOS/Windows clients.</P -><P ->The following script from Steve Langasek converts all -filenames from CP850 to the iso8859-15 charset.</P -><P -><SAMP -CLASS="PROMPT" ->#</SAMP -><KBD -CLASS="USERINPUT" ->find <VAR -CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ->/path/to/share</VAR -> -type f -exec bash -c 'CP="{}"; ISO=`echo -n "$CP" | iconv -f cp850 \ - -t iso8859-15`; if [ "$CP" != "$ISO" ]; then mv "$CP" "$ISO"; fi' \;</KBD -></P -></DIV -><DIV -CLASS="SECT1" -><H1 -CLASS="SECT1" -><A -NAME="AEN4168" ->26.4. Japanese charsets</A -></H1 -><P ->Samba doesn't work correctly with Japanese charsets yet. Here are points of attention when setting it up:</P -><P -></P -><TABLE -BORDER="0" -><TBODY -><TR -><TD ->You should set <B -CLASS="COMMAND" ->mangling method = hash</B -></TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->There are various iconv() implementations around and not all of -them work equally well. glibc2's iconv() has a critical problem in CP932. -libiconv-1.8 works with CP932 but still has some problems and does not -work with EUC-JP. </TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->You should set <B -CLASS="COMMAND" ->dos charset = CP932</B ->, not Shift_JIS, SJIS...</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->Currently only <B -CLASS="COMMAND" ->unix charset = CP932</B -> will work (but still has some problems...) because of iconv() issues. <B -CLASS="COMMAND" ->unix charset = EUC-JP</B -> doesn't work well because of iconv() issues.</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->Currently Samba 3.0 does not support <B -CLASS="COMMAND" ->unix charset = UTF8-MAC/CAP/HEX/JIS*</B -></TD -></TR -></TBODY -></TABLE -><P -></P -><P ->More information (in Japanese) is available at: <A -HREF="http://www.atmarkit.co.jp/flinux/special/samba3/samba3a.html" -TARGET="_top" ->http://www.atmarkit.co.jp/flinux/special/samba3/samba3a.html</A ->.</P -></DIV -></DIV -><DIV -CLASS="NAVFOOTER" -><HR -ALIGN="LEFT" -WIDTH="100%"><TABLE -SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" -WIDTH="100%" -BORDER="0" -CELLPADDING="0" -CELLSPACING="0" -><TR -><TD -WIDTH="33%" -ALIGN="left" -VALIGN="top" -><A -HREF="securing-samba.html" -ACCESSKEY="P" ->Prev</A -></TD -><TD -WIDTH="34%" -ALIGN="center" -VALIGN="top" -><A -HREF="samba-howto-collection.html" -ACCESSKEY="H" ->Home</A -></TD -><TD -WIDTH="33%" -ALIGN="right" -VALIGN="top" -><A -HREF="appendixes.html" -ACCESSKEY="N" ->Next</A -></TD -></TR -><TR -><TD -WIDTH="33%" -ALIGN="left" -VALIGN="top" ->Securing Samba</TD -><TD -WIDTH="34%" -ALIGN="center" -VALIGN="top" -><A -HREF="optional.html" -ACCESSKEY="U" ->Up</A -></TD -><TD -WIDTH="33%" -ALIGN="right" -VALIGN="top" ->Appendixes</TD -></TR -></TABLE -></DIV -></BODY -></HTML ->
\ No newline at end of file +for the local charset used by the DOS/Windows clients.</p><p>The following script from Steve Langasek converts all +filenames from CP850 to the iso8859-15 charset.</p><p> +<tt>#</tt><b><tt>find <i><tt>/path/to/share</tt></i> -type f -exec bash -c 'CP="{}"; ISO=`echo -n "$CP" | iconv -f cp850 \ + -t iso8859-15`; if [ "$CP" != "$ISO" ]; then mv "$CP" "$ISO"; fi' \; +</tt></b> +</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2901459"></a>Japanese charsets</h2></div></div><p>Samba doesn't work correctly with Japanese charsets yet. Here are +points of attention when setting it up:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p>You should set <b>mangling method = +hash</b></p></li><li><p>There are various iconv() implementations around and not +all of them work equally well. glibc2's iconv() has a critical problem +in CP932. libiconv-1.8 works with CP932 but still has some problems and +does not work with EUC-JP.</p></li><li><p>You should set <b>dos charset = CP932</b>, not +Shift_JIS, SJIS...</p></li><li><p>Currently only <b>unix charset = CP932</b> +will work (but still has some problems...) because of iconv() issues. +<b>unix charset = EUC-JP</b> doesn't work well because of +iconv() issues.</p></li><li><p>Currently Samba 3.0 does not support <b>unix charset += UTF8-MAC/CAP/HEX/JIS*</b></p></li></ul></div><p>More information (in Japanese) is available at: <a href="http://www.atmarkit.co.jp/flinux/special/samba3/samba3a.html" target="_top">http://www.atmarkit.co.jp/flinux/special/samba3/samba3a.html</a>.</p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="securing-samba.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="optional.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="locking.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Chapter 24. Securing Samba </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Chapter 26. File and Record Locking</td></tr></table></div></body></html> |