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-<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter 27. Unicode/Charsets</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.60.1"><link rel="home" href="samba-doc.html" title="SAMBA Project Documentation"><link rel="up" href="optional.html" title="Part III. Advanced Configuration"><link rel="previous" href="integrate-ms-networks.html" title="Chapter 26. Integrating MS Windows networks with Samba"><link rel="next" href="Backup.html" title="Chapter 28. Samba Backup Techniques"></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 27. Unicode/Charsets</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="integrate-ms-networks.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Part III. Advanced Configuration</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Backup.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="unicode"></a>Chapter 27. Unicode/Charsets</h2></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">Jelmer</span> <span class="othername">R.</span> <span class="surname">Vernooij</span></h3><div class="affiliation"><span class="orgname">The Samba Team<br></span><div class="address"><p><tt class="email">&lt;<a href="mailto:jelmer@samba.org">jelmer@samba.org</a>&gt;</tt></p></div></div></div></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">TAKAHASHI</span> <span class="surname">Motonobu</span></h3><div class="affiliation"><div class="address"><p><tt class="email">&lt;<a href="mailto:monyo@home.monyo.com">monyo@home.monyo.com</a>&gt;</tt></p></div></div></div></div><div><p class="pubdate">25 March 2003</p></div></div><div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><a href="unicode.html#id2953342">Features and Benefits</a></dt><dt><a href="unicode.html#id2953385">What are charsets and unicode?</a></dt><dt><a href="unicode.html#id2953454">Samba and charsets</a></dt><dt><a href="unicode.html#id2953583">Conversion from old names</a></dt><dt><a href="unicode.html#id2953612">Japanese charsets</a></dt><dt><a href="unicode.html#id2953751">Common errors</a></dt><dd><dl><dt><a href="unicode.html#id2953758">CP850.so can't be found</a></dt></dl></dd></dl></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2953342"></a>Features and Benefits</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>
+<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter 27. Unicode/Charsets</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.60.1"><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="integrate-ms-networks.html" title="Chapter 26. Integrating MS Windows Networks with Samba"><link rel="next" href="Backup.html" title="Chapter 28. Samba Backup Techniques"></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 27. Unicode/Charsets</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="integrate-ms-networks.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Part III. Advanced Configuration</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Backup.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="unicode"></a>Chapter 27. Unicode/Charsets</h2></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">Jelmer</span> <span class="othername">R.</span> <span class="surname">Vernooij</span></h3><div class="affiliation"><span class="orgname">The Samba Team<br></span><div class="address"><p><tt class="email">&lt;<a href="mailto:jelmer@samba.org">jelmer@samba.org</a>&gt;</tt></p></div></div></div></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">John</span> <span class="othername">H.</span> <span class="surname">Terpstra</span></h3><div class="affiliation"><span class="orgname">Samba Team<br></span><div class="address"><p><tt class="email">&lt;<a href="mailto:jht@samba.org">jht@samba.org</a>&gt;</tt></p></div></div></div></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">TAKAHASHI</span> <span class="surname">Motonobu</span></h3><div class="affiliation"><div class="address"><p><tt class="email">&lt;<a href="mailto:monyo@home.monyo.com">monyo@home.monyo.com</a>&gt;</tt></p></div></div></div></div><div><p class="pubdate">25 March 2003</p></div></div><div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><a href="unicode.html#id2963374">Features and Benefits</a></dt><dt><a href="unicode.html#id2963419">What Are Charsets and Unicode?</a></dt><dt><a href="unicode.html#id2963499">Samba and Charsets</a></dt><dt><a href="unicode.html#id2963627">Conversion from Old Names</a></dt><dt><a href="unicode.html#id2963643">Japanese Charsets</a></dt><dt><a href="unicode.html#id2963781">Common Errors</a></dt><dd><dl><dt><a href="unicode.html#id2963788">CP850.so Can't Be Found</a></dt></dl></dd></dl></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2963374"></a>Features and Benefits</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>
Every industry eventually matures. One of the great areas of maturation is in
the focus that has been given over the past decade to make it possible for anyone
anywhere to use a computer. It has not always been that way, in fact, not so long
@@ -6,62 +6,64 @@ ago it was common for software to be written for exclusive use in the country of
origin.
</p><p>
Of all the effort that has been brought to bear on providing native language support
-for all computer users, the efforts of the <a href="http://www.openi18n.org/" target="_top">Openi18n organisation</a> is deserving of
+for all computer users, the efforts of the <ulink url="http://www.openi18n.org/">Openi18n organization</ulink> is deserving of
special mention.
</p><p>
Samba-2.x supported a single locale through a mechanism called
<span class="emphasis"><em>codepages</em></span>. Samba-3 is destined to become a truly trans-global
-file and printer sharing platform.
-</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2953385"></a>What are charsets and unicode?</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>
+file and printer-sharing platform.
+</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2963419"></a>What Are Charsets and Unicode?</h2></div></div><div></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"><em>character set(charset)
+to a certain number depends on the <span class="emphasis"><em>character set (charset)
</em></span> that is used.
+</p><p>
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
+with German umlauts, Japanese characters, and so on). 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
+but those need twice as much storage space (or more). 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).
+is more than 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 <a href="http://www.unicode.org/" target="_top">unicode</a>.
+A standardized multibyte charset is <ulink url="http://www.unicode.org/">unicode</ulink>.
A big advantage of using a multibyte charset is that you only need one; there
is no need to make sure two computers use the same charset when they are
communicating.
-</p><p>Old windows clients 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
+</p><p>Old Windows clients use single-byte charsets, named
+<i class="parameter"><tt>codepages</tt></i>, by Microsoft. However, there is no support for
+negotiating the charset to be used in the SMB/CIFS protocol. Thus, you
have to make sure you are using the same charset when talking to an older client.
-Newer clients (Windows NT, 2K, XP) talk unicode over the wire.
-</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2953454"></a>Samba and charsets</h2></div></div><div></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"><a class="indexterm" name="id2953476"></a><i class="parameter"><tt>unix charset</tt></i></span></dt><dd><p>
+Newer clients (Windows NT, 200x, XP) talk unicode over the wire.
+</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2963499"></a>Samba and Charsets</h2></div></div><div></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"><a class="indexterm" name="id2963521"></a><i class="parameter"><tt>unix charset</tt></i></span></dt><dd><p>
This is the charset used internally by your operating system.
The default is <tt class="constant">UTF-8</tt>, which is fine for most
- systems. The default in previous samba releases was <tt class="constant">ASCII</tt>.
- </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><a class="indexterm" name="id2953514"></a><i class="parameter"><tt>display charset</tt></i></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 class="command">unix charset</b>.
- </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><a class="indexterm" name="id2953548"></a><i class="parameter"><tt>dos charset</tt></i></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.
+ systems, which covers all characters in all languages. The default in previous Samba releases was <tt class="constant">ASCII</tt>.
+ </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><a class="indexterm" name="id2963558"></a><i class="parameter"><tt>display charset</tt></i></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 <i class="parameter"><tt>unix charset</tt></i>.
+ </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><a class="indexterm" name="id2963592"></a><i class="parameter"><tt>dos charset</tt></i></span></dt><dd><p>This is the charset Samba uses when communicating with
+ DOS and Windows 9x/Me 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 &quot;dos charset&quot;</b> to see
+ 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" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2953583"></a>Conversion from old names</h2></div></div><div></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>Bjoern Jacke has written a utility named <a href="http://j3e.de/linux/convmv/" target="_top">convm</a> that can convert whole directory
- structures to different charsets with one single command.
-</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2953612"></a>Japanese charsets</h2></div></div><div></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 <a class="indexterm" name="id2953633"></a><i class="parameter"><tt>mangling method</tt></i> = hash</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 <a class="indexterm" name="id2953663"></a><i class="parameter"><tt>dos charset</tt></i> = CP932, not
-Shift_JIS, SJIS...</p></li><li><p>Currently only <a class="indexterm" name="id2953683"></a><i class="parameter"><tt>unix charset</tt></i> = CP932
-will work (but still has some problems...) because of iconv() issues.
-<a class="indexterm" name="id2953699"></a><i class="parameter"><tt>unix charset</tt></i> = EUC-JP doesn't work well because of
-iconv() issues.</p></li><li><p>Currently Samba 3.0 does not support <a class="indexterm" name="id2953718"></a><i class="parameter"><tt>unix charset</tt></i> = UTF8-MAC/CAP/HEX/JIS*</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 class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2953751"></a>Common errors</h2></div></div><div></div></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2953758"></a>CP850.so can't be found</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>&#8220;<span class="quote">Samba is complaining about a missing <tt class="filename">CP850.so</tt> file</span>&#8221;.</p><p>CP850 is the default <a class="indexterm" name="id2953783"></a><i class="parameter"><tt>dos charset</tt></i>. The <a class="indexterm" name="id2953797"></a><i class="parameter"><tt>dos charset</tt></i> is used to convert data to the codepage used by your dos clients. If you don't have any dos clients, you can safely ignore this message. </p><p>CP850 should be supported by your local iconv implementation. Make sure you have all the required packages installed. If you compiled samba from source, make sure configure found iconv.</p></div></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="integrate-ms-networks.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="Backup.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Chapter 26. Integrating MS Windows networks with Samba </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="samba-doc.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Chapter 28. Samba Backup Techniques</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
+ </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2963627"></a>Conversion from Old Names</h2></div></div><div></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></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2963643"></a>Japanese Charsets</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>Samba does not 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 <a class="indexterm" name="id2963664"></a><i class="parameter"><tt>mangling method</tt></i> = hash</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 <a class="indexterm" name="id2963693"></a><i class="parameter"><tt>dos charset</tt></i> = CP932, not
+ Shift_JIS, SJIS.</p></li><li><p>Currently only <a class="indexterm" name="id2963713"></a><i class="parameter"><tt>UNIX charset</tt></i> = CP932
+ will work (but still has some problems...) because of iconv() issues.
+ <a class="indexterm" name="id2963729"></a><i class="parameter"><tt>UNIX charset</tt></i> = EUC-JP does not work well because of
+ iconv() issues.</p></li><li><p>Currently Samba-3.0 does not support <a class="indexterm" name="id2963749"></a><i class="parameter"><tt>UNIX charset</tt></i> = UTF8-MAC/CAP/HEX/JIS*.</p></li></ul></div><p>More information (in Japanese) is available at: <ulink url="http://www.atmarkit.co.jp/flinux/special/samba3/samba3a.html">http://www.atmarkit.co.jp/flinux/special/samba3/samba3a.html</ulink>.</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2963781"></a>Common Errors</h2></div></div><div></div></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2963788"></a>CP850.so Can't Be Found</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>&#8220;<span class="quote">Samba is complaining about a missing <tt class="filename">CP850.so</tt> file.</span>&#8221;</p><p><span class="emphasis"><em>Answer:</em></span> CP850 is the default <a class="indexterm" name="id2963814"></a><i class="parameter"><tt>dos charset</tt></i>.
+ The <a class="indexterm" name="id2963828"></a><i class="parameter"><tt>dos charset</tt></i> is used to convert data to the codepage used by your dos clients.
+ If you do not have any dos clients, you can safely ignore this message. </p><p>CP850 should be supported by your local iconv implementation. Make sure you have all the required packages installed.
+ If you compiled Samba from source, make sure to configure found iconv.</p></div></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="integrate-ms-networks.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="Backup.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Chapter 26. Integrating MS Windows Networks with Samba </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Chapter 28. Samba Backup Techniques</td></tr></table></div></body></html>