At 11:22 PM 3/27/2004 +0900, Koichi Kubo wrote:
I have Samba 3.0 installed, using utf-8, and Windows clients can create
files with mixed Korean/Japanese characters in the same file name on this
server. It works well.
After I installed Samba 3.0, and I tried using utf-8.
It almost worked well with BackupPC. But when I'm restoring the file using
Japanese charset, I found weird characters in the filename.
Utf-8 is good solution, but it seems Microsoft IE can accept only shift_jis
in
the filename downloading.
If you can try that, let me know about the restoring.
Well, in just two sentences, I seem to have confused five entirely separate
issues. That might be a new record.
I have a Samba 3.0 server running on FreeBSD. Japanese or Korean Windows
machines can create mixed language files on the server. The files exist on
FreeBSD, and are visible to Windows.
As an aside, since I have Asian language support on my English machine, I
can also see those files correctly. These are the only combinations that I
can confirm to work.
I don't know about the following:
Can smbclient, running on *nix, correctly see multi-byte and/or utf-8 files
on a Windows box? This is the reverse of the above situation. I don't know.
Note that neither of these points involve BackupPC.
Here are some more points to be tested:
Can BackupPC use smbclient and reliably fetch mixed language utf-8 files
from a Windows box?
Can BackupPC use smbclient to restore mixed language utf-8 files to a
Windows box?
Can BackupPC reliably backup and restore the utf-8 files that are on the
Samba server (created in my original example) by using the native *nix file
system? That is, can BackupPC back up a unicode enabled Samba server?
So, as to your original question, I actually have not tried restores of
Japanese-named files with BackupPC. I would not be surprised if there were
problems.
And you have an important point about filename downloading. Although IE
can display utf-8 just fine, when it is time to download a file, it may
well require the file information be sent in shift-jis. So that may be
another client-level configuration option in BackupPC.
This is similar to the Japanese email issue. I would like to use utf-8 for
sending email, but too many email clients cannot accept it. So, although
the web sites are entirely in utf-8, I convert all the email strings to
iso-2022-jp right before sending an email.
Marlin Prowell
Cadalog, Inc.
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