Re: unicode strings

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton (lkcl@switchboard.net)
Thu, 12 Mar 1998 11:20:09 +0000 (GMT)

Date:	Thu, 12 Mar 1998 11:20:09 +0000 (GMT)
From:	Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@switchboard.net>
To:	Multiple recipients of list <samba-technical@samba.anu.edu.au>, Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: unicode strings
In-Reply-To: <19980312042025Z12615535-18482+13355@samba.anu.edu.au>

On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Andrew Tridgell wrote:

> > Is there any plan to use unicode strings internally to samba ?
>
> possibly :-)
>
> I personally don't like them very much, but we do support multi-byte
> character sets (esp. Kanji) and maybe we'll do unicode properly some
> day. It isn't really a high priority though.

jean francois is expanding the set of unicode manipulation strings
available. the dce/rpc code currently does everything with unicode
strings, and has to convert to 8-bit chars when talking to samba.

luke