Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:30:15 GMT From: Antony Mawer <lists@mawer.org> To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/151845: [smbfs] [patch] smbfs should be upgraded to support Unicode Message-ID: <201011112030.oABKUFoF059840@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/151845; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Antony Mawer <lists@mawer.org> To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, m.meelis@easybow.com Cc: Subject: Re: kern/151845: [smbfs] [patch] smbfs should be upgraded to support Unicode Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 06:55:35 +1100 There were some patches floating around to add Unicode support to smbfs as long as 5 years ago, apparently inspired b work done on Mac OS X. These are still available here: http://people.freebsd.org/~imura/kiconv/ The smbfs code hasn't changed too much in that time (it's pretty much unmaintained), so I don't think it would be too much work to dust them off and get them to apply against 8.x or -CURRENT. If someone out there with some knowledge of this area were able to spare a few hours to look at this would be a huge step in bringing SMBFS up to a modern usable level - at the moment it is largely useless as soon as you hit files with non-ASCII characters in it.
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