Re: Changing the charset

On Tue, 19 May 2026 10:23:40 +0200
"Stefan G. Weichinger via samba" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> 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?

It shouldn't, as far as I am aware, iso8859-15 is a subset of the
more modern UTF-8 so you should not notice any real difference.

Try just commenting out those lines and see what happens, if anyone
screams, then uncomment them, but I do not think anyone will.

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

Oh you really should have backups, unless you can afford to lose things.

Rowland

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