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One of the biggest changes in Samba 3.0 will be the rewrite to use
unicode strings throughout Samba. While the SMB protocol includes
negotiation options that allow Samba to negotiate non-unicode
operation we have found that a combination of non-unicode bugs in NT
and uniform handling of internationalisation has forced us to rewrite
Samba to use Unicode throughout. Jeremy Allison is doing most of the
work on the Unicode rewrite.
One big advantage of this rewrite will be that bugs involving
multibyte character sets should be found much faster, as they will
affect the primary Samba developers (who all speak single byte encoded
languages).
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