Re: [patch] [bug 432510] samba filename encoding on none UTF-8 locales

[Takao Fujiwara - Tokyo S/W Center <Takao Fujiwara Sun COM>]

Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 17:06 +0900, Takao Fujiwara - Tokyo S/W Center
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I attached the patch to work copy/paste samba files on none UTF-8 client.
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=432510
> >
> > Could you review this?
>
>
> Hmm, the plan was to have gnome-vfs always use utf8 uris for smb:. This
> should be theoretically doable, since samba knows the smb share encoding
> and should be able to convert to/from utf8. Isn't this happening?

OK, it's my case 1. If we expect gnome-vfs always use UTF-8, it's different encodings between samba and the locale filesystem, i.e. samba is UTF-8 and Nautilus is launched on the current locale in the local filesystem. Then when copy the file from samba to the locale filesystem, the filename is garbaged because Nautilus try to show the filename with the current locale but it's UTF-8.
I have one problem in this suggestion: If I think to convert the encoding in Nautilus when I copy files from samba to local, it works on the parent filenames or directory names but it does not work when the dictory also includes the multibyte filenames.

> If not, is there not something we can do in libsmbclient to enforce
> this?

I think the above problem cannot resolve in the samba side.

What do you think?

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