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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 -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. -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, -but those need twice(or even more) as much storage space. These -charsets can contain <B -CLASS="COMMAND" ->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 -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 -'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 - 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 - 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 - 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, -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 ->
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