samba - Mar 2005 - UTF-8 problem when not using UTF-8, but Umlauts

On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 12:12:27PM +0100, Gerhard Strangar
wrote:
> High,
> 
> I'm running some Windows 9x Clients which don't use Unicode for
SMB. It
> didn't cause any problems when using Samba 2, because the UNIX machines
> use ISO8859-1 and the Windows 9x use CP850 and no conversion was
> neccessary, German Umlauts like ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ? and ? were the same on
> UNIX and Windows.
> Now I'm trying to switch to Samba 3.0.11 and it doesn't work
anymore. I
> tried "dos charset = CP850" together with "unix charset =
ISO8859-1" as
> well as "dos charset = ISO8859-1" together with "unix
charset > ISO8859-1". First I thought everything was okay, because the
characters
> are diplaed correctly, but if a Windows 9x client tried to delete a file
> containing Umlauts or the ?, it fails and diplays the error message:
> "File cannot be deleted.      File system error (1026)"
> When it tries to create such a file, it gets some completely different
> name.
> 
> smbstatus says:
> init_iconv: Conversion from UTF-16LE to ISO8859-1 not supported
> init_iconv: Attempting to replace with conversion from UTF-16LE to ASCII
The iconv library on this system is broken. What UNIX are you using ?

Jeremy.

On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 07:29:24PM +0100, Gerhard Strangar
wrote:
> Jeremy Allison wrote:
> 
> > > smbstatus says:
> > > init_iconv: Conversion from UTF-16LE to ISO8859-1 not supported
> > > init_iconv: Attempting to replace with conversion from UTF-16LE
to ASCII
> > The iconv library on this system is broken. What UNIX are you using ?
> 
> Solaris 9 for 32-bit x86
It has a broken iconv library. Either replace it with GNU iconv, or
use Linux on x86 (which has a working iconv library).

Jeremy.

On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 02:17:13PM +0100, Gerhard Strangar
wrote:
> Jeremy Allison wrote:
> 
> > > > The iconv library on this system is broken. What UNIX are
you using ?
> > > Solaris 9 for 32-bit x86
> > It has a broken iconv library.
> 
> Which stnadard or RFC does it violate?
I'm not saying it violates any standard or RFC, what I'm saying is
it doesn't work :-).

Convering from UCS2-LE to ISO8859-1 is a pretty common operation,
if your iconv library doesn't seem to have support for it then there's
something wrong. I don't use Solaris so I don't know what.
> Installing libiconv didn't create a
> /usr/local/samba/lib/charset/ISO8859-1.so
> which smbstatus tries to open all the time.
I'd just use Linux then :-). iconv is configured correctly
and just works on that platform.

Jeremy.