From 717cacf018442712c3c67af63fb88dc1f49637d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 11:08:54 +0000
Subject: Add vorlon's script to convert filenames from CP850 to ISO8859-15
 (This used to be commit c46d260c653a38c1f1819257d07b1a414571fec3)

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 docs/docbook/projdoc/unicode.sgml | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

(limited to 'docs/docbook/projdoc/unicode.sgml')

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
@@ -81,5 +81,22 @@ samba knows of three kinds of character sets:
 	</varlistentry>
 </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>
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