Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 15:11:58 +0800 From: =?UTF-8?Q?=E5=BC=A0=E9=9F=A1=E6=AD=A6?= <weiwu@sdf.lonestar.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: has ANYONE used FreeBSD read Chinese directories from a Windows Share? (was: Re: (repost) cannot read windows share) Message-ID: <1165648318.17356.16.camel@joe.realss.com> In-Reply-To: <45751370.7040704@mawer.org> References: <1165282478.5417.6.camel@joe.realss.com> <200612041946.15303.lane@joeandlane.com> <457507A4.40101@u.washington.edu> <457509AA.5030007@u.washington.edu> <1165300128.5417.36.camel@joe.realss.com> <45751370.7040704@mawer.org>
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If our understanding to the current problem is correct (that FreeBSD
kernel iconv currently have problem with double-bit character-set), then
there should have never been FreeBSD users that can actually mount and
access a Windows Share that:
I. is using GB2312 locale (that is, Windows Simplified Chinese
version);
II. have Chinese character in folder names
在 2006-12-05二的 17:36 +1100，Antony Mawer写道：
> On 5/12/2006 5:28 PM, 张韡武 wrote:
> > 在 2006-12-04一的 21:54 -0800，Garrett Cooper写道：
> >> Also, I'm not sure if FreeBSD has been configured to run the particular
> >> character set you need (nor am I sure where any documentation may be
> >> regarding how to set that up), but you also want to explore getting that
> >> solved in tandem with the mount_smbfs item.
> >
> > I read carefully with mount_smbfs and as far as I can tell mount_smbfs
> > is using iconv lib which compiled as kernel module. After I run
> > mount_smbfs I checked and made sure libiconv.ko is automatically loaded.
> > According to documents, mount_smbfs automatically load this kernel
> ...
>
> I don't know if this is at all useful, but I have come across the
> following patches, which appear to have been ported from Darwin, to
> improve handling of multibyte character sets:
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~imura/kiconv/
>
> It would be interesting to see these committed (if they are valuable),
> as I know there are issues with FreeBSD mount_smbfs when operating
> against the Mac OSX samba implementation, which (I am told) only speaks
> UCS2.
>
> Given the work already gone into these, it would be nice to see them
> finished off and committed... I wonder how many other smbfs-related
> improvements may exist in Darwin that might be worth looking at?
>
> http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.4.8.x86/smb-217.18/
>
> Cheers
> Antony
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