Bug#397732: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#397732: samba: Accented characteres replaced by underscore

[Steve Langasek]

On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 03:20:49AM +0100, Francisco Javier F. Serrador wrote:
> Accented characters are replaced by an underscore. On Spanish Windows XP
> version, there are at least four folders for roaming profiles folders
> with accented characteres that are not correctly synchronized to the
> server making the user loose data when he logs in again.

> We can reproduce the problem always. We are using Unicode default
> charmaps on both sides.

Well, the use of Unicode is probably the problem, given the character set
information included in your report:

> Locale: LANG=es_ES at euro, LC_CTYPE=es_ES at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

If the filenames are encoded in ISO8859-15 on the filesystem, but Samba
hasn't been told this, it will have no choice but to treat these as invalid
characters.  Please check whether your users are using ISO8859-15 encoding
on the Samba server, and if so, update samba's configuration to match (or
rename the files to use UTF-8 encoding for filenames).

Cheers,
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