Hi, Christian Perrier, le Wed 01 Feb 2006 07:38:45 +0100, a écrit : > Quoting Samuel Thibault ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I don't understand why display charset currently defaults to ASCII > > and unix charset defaults to UTF8. Can't they just both default to > > the current locale ? (particularly display charset). This would make > > accented letters work in hardly every usual case, and possibly fix some > > of the charset bugs that were reported against samba. > > Well, *which* locale?
The current locale when running smbclient/smbget, for instance. Locales in logs are yet another issue, which doesn't seem to have been really solved in debian. > You're certainly aware that while the system locale can be, say > fr_FR.UTF-8, users are still able to use another locale such as, say > fr_FR for those who still live in stone age.... Yes, that's why when running smbclient, the display charset should get set to the _current_ locale's charset. > So, *which* of those three locales should be used for "display > charset"? As I said, the _current_ one, just like any other localized program. > Not mentioning that SWAT itself, which uses this "display charset" > parameters, has no reason to depend on whatever charset of the Unix > system. Yet, swat should probably just use UTF-8 (and advertise this in the http headers of course). > Finally, we're talking about locales....while these parameters are > about character sets....these are quite different beasts. No. Locales tells the charset too: nl_langinfo(CHARSET) returns what I call the "current" locale's charset. BTW, it's still not clear to me the difference between unix charset and display charset. I thought that unix charset was used for local filesystem names, while display charset was used for displaying names on ttys, but it doesn't seem to be so (and I don't see why in such case there should be such distinction: "ls" doesn't make such distinction). Regards, Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
