Changing the charset

"Stefan G. Weichinger via samba" <[email protected]> Tue, 19 May 2026 10:23:40 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.network.samba.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I recently had an issue where a user couldn't correctly store an email 
out of his Outlook on an windows 11 PC to samba.

Something around illegal characters (sry, I don't have the message at 
hand right now).

The samba is 4.22.8 on Debian-13 and it has been historically upgraded 
over years ...

The former admin configured:

	dos charset = CP850
	unix charset = iso8859-15

And I kept it that way because I didn't want to break things (and it 
wasn't a problem so far ...).

Is changing this to UTF-8 problematic?
Does that break filenames or the displayed names?

We can't backup/restore all the files or so .. so I have to research how 
to maybe solve this.

Thanks for any advice!


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