November 1999
Beginner to intermediate
413 pages
16h 7m
English
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Internationalization
Samba has a limited ability to speak foreign tongues: if you need to deal with characters that aren’t in standard ASCII, some options that can help you are shown in Table 8.3. Otherwise, you can skip over this section.
Table 8-3. Networking Configuration Options
|
Option |
Parameters |
Function |
Default |
Scope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
Described in this section |
Sets a code page to expect from clients |
850 |
Global |
|
|
Described in this section |
Translates code pages into alternate UNIX character sets |
None |
Global |
|
|
Described in this section |
Translates code page 932 into an Asian character set |
None |
Global |
|
|
string (set of characters) |
Obsolete: formerly added individual characters to a code page, and had to be used after setting client 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 in order 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 8.4.
Table 8-4. Valid Code Pages with Samba 2.0
|
Code Page |
Definition |
|---|---|
|
|
MS-DOS Latin (United States) |
|
|
Windows 95 Greek |
|
|
MS-DOS Latin 1 (Western European) ... |
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