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diff --git a/docs/docbook/projdoc/unicode.sgml b/docs/docbook/projdoc/unicode.sgml index d44e8ea291..2f794aadc2 100644 --- a/docs/docbook/projdoc/unicode.sgml +++ b/docs/docbook/projdoc/unicode.sgml @@ -82,4 +82,21 @@ samba knows of three kinds of character sets: </variablelist> </sect1> + +<sect1> +<title>Conversion from old names</title> + +<para>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.</para> + +<para>The following script from Steve Langasek converts all +filenames from CP850 to the iso8859-15 charset.</para> + +<para> +<prompt>#</prompt><userinput>find <replaceable>/path/to/share</replaceable> -type f -exec bash -c 'CP="{}"; ISO=`echo -n "$CP" | iconv -f cp850 \ + -t iso8859-15`; if [ "$CP" != "$ISO" ]; then mv "$CP" "$ISO"; fi' \; +</userinput> +</para> +</sect1> </chapter> |