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author | Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org> | 2003-02-24 01:10:15 +0000 |
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committer | Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org> | 2003-02-24 01:10:15 +0000 |
commit | 0fc93128b8e510c3ccc161044068d9f3960635da (patch) | |
tree | 353277332834bd0e2c7644df1cad8171082af9ce | |
parent | 285a3b0ef869382aea892cad37284ba9cbe529d2 (diff) | |
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Add comment about Samba character sets, from explanation by abartlet.
(This used to be commit 822f6c2f38b9b30dca2358e99ad6a379f5890c89)
-rw-r--r-- | source3/lib/charcnv.c | 13 |
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diff --git a/source3/lib/charcnv.c b/source3/lib/charcnv.c index 54e17bea68..4ac10a2e74 100644 --- a/source3/lib/charcnv.c +++ b/source3/lib/charcnv.c @@ -22,6 +22,19 @@ */ #include "includes.h" +/** + * @file + * + * @brief Character-set conversion routines built on our iconv. + * + * @note Samba's internal character set (at least in the 3.0 series) + * is always the same as the one for the Unix filesystem. It is + * <b>not</b> necessarily UTF-8 and may be different on machines that + * need i18n filenames to be compatible with Unix software. It does + * have to be a superset of ASCII. All multibyte sequences must start + * with a byte with the high bit set. + */ + static pstring cvtbuf; static smb_iconv_t conv_handles[NUM_CHARSETS][NUM_CHARSETS]; |