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Windows Shares & Foreign File Names
Authored by: apparissus on Aug 26, '02 04:01:38AM

Samba does support double byte characters - I have several linux boxen and my trusty TiBook (running Jag) all happily sharing e-mails and docs containing Kana. Possibly the problem lies with Windows?



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Windows Shares & Foreign File Names
Authored by: nichrome on Aug 26, '02 04:37:31AM

Indeed. Some (most) flavors of Windows fail to understand double-byte characters unless you install specialized language packs.



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Windows Shares & Foreign File Names
Authored by: legacyb4 on Aug 26, '02 05:04:44AM

Will have to wait and see what other users say, but browsing from both Japanese NT & English/Japanese 2000 clients result in AWOL files.

Note that these clients have no issues seeing Japanese-named files or folders on the NT server...

Oh well, at least it's one step ahead of Windows in being a perfect network client!



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Windows Shares & Foreign File Names
Authored by: legacyb4 on Aug 26, '02 05:08:38AM

Actually, if you are using Windows 2000, you don't need to install anything special other than going under Control Panel/Regional Options and enabling Japanese and the respective Code Page Conversion Table (Japanese) and Set Default to Japanese for the locale. Your menus will stay in English (unless you install the additional Language Pack) but you can install, run, and read Japanese (or any other language enabled) without breaking a sweat. Almost as sexy as the way OS X does it...



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