Using Samba, Second Edition

Internationalization

Starting with Samba 3.0, Samba supports Unicode “on the wire,” requiring no additional effort on your part to support filenames and other text containing characters in international character sets.

Internationalization Options

Samba 2.2.x has a limited ability to speak foreign tongues: if you need to support filenames containing characters that aren’t in standard ASCII, some options that can help you are shown in Table 11-3.

Table 11-3. Internationalization options

Option	Parameters	Function	Default	Scope
client code page	Described in this section	Sets a code page to expect from clients	850	Global
character set	Described in this section	Translates code pages into alternate Unix character sets	None	Global
coding system	Described in this section	Translates code page 932 into an Asian character set	None	Global
valid chars	string (set of characters)	Adds individual characters to a code page	None	Global

client code page

The character sets on Windows platforms hark back to the original concept of a code page . These code pages are used by DOS and Windows clients to determine rules for mapping lowercase letters to uppercase letters. Samba can be instructed to use a variety of code pages through the use of the global client code page option to match the corresponding code page in use on the client. This option loads a code page definition file and can take the values specified in Table 11-4.

Table 11-4. Valid code pages with Samba 2.0