Re: Changing the charset

Hi Stefan


you will need to convert filenames


you should look at convmv tool

https://www.j3e.de/linux/convmv/man/

convmv - converts filenames from one encoding to another




Le 19/05/2026 à 10:23, Stefan G. Weichinger via samba a écrit :
>
> 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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Arnaud FLORENT
IRIS Technologies
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