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Author: jht
Date: 2005-04-15 16:49:53 +0000 (Fri, 15 Apr 2005)
New Revision: 483
WebSVN:
http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=rev&root=samba-docs&rev=483
Log:
Adding convmv info suggested by Volker Lendecke.
Modified:
trunk/Samba-Guide/SBE-UpgradingSamba.xml
Changeset:
Modified: trunk/Samba-Guide/SBE-UpgradingSamba.xml
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--- trunk/Samba-Guide/SBE-UpgradingSamba.xml 2005-04-15 08:24:10 UTC (rev
482)
+++ trunk/Samba-Guide/SBE-UpgradingSamba.xml 2005-04-15 16:49:53 UTC (rev
483)
@@ -462,6 +462,7 @@
</para>
<para>
+ <indexterm><primary></primary></indexterm>
It is important that both the &smb.conf; file and the
<filename>secrets.tdb</filename> should
be backed up before attempting any upgrade. The
<filename>secrets.tdb</filename> file is version
encoded and therefore a newer version may not work with an older
version of Samba. A backup
@@ -470,6 +471,43 @@
</sect3>
+ <sect3>
+ <title>International Language Support</title>
+
+ <para>
+ <indexterm><primary>unicode</primary></indexterm>
+ <indexterm><primary>character set</primary></indexterm>
+ <indexterm><primary>codepage</primary></indexterm>
+ <indexterm><primary>internationalization</primary></indexterm>
+ Samba-2.x had not support for Unicode, instead all national language
character set support in file names
+ was done using particular locale codepage mapping techniques. Samba-3
supports Unicode in file names, thus
+ providing true internationalization support.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ <indexterm><primary>8-bit</primary></indexterm>
+ Non-English users whose national language character set has special
characters and who upgrade naively will
+ find that many files that have the special chracters in the file name
will see them garbled and jumbled up.
+ This typically happens with umlauts and accents because these
characters were particular to the codepage
+ that was in use with Samba-2.x using an 8-bit encoding scheme.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ <indexterm><primary>UTF-8</primary></indexterm>
+ Files that are created with Samba-3 will use UTF-8 encoding. Should the
file system ever end up with a
+ mix of codepage (unix charset) encoded file names and UTF-8 encoded
file names, the mess will take some
+ effort to set straight.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ <indexterm><primary>convmv</primary></indexterm>
+ A very helpful tool is available from Bjorn Jacke's <ulink
url="http://j3e.de/linux/convmv/";>convmv</ulink>
+ work. Convmv is a tool that can be used to convert file and directory
names from one encoding method to
+ another. The most common use for this tool is to convert locale encoded
files to UTF-8 Unicode encoding.
+ </para>
+
+ </sect3>
+
</sect2>
</sect1>
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