Re: Mac to windows File name conversion
George K Colley <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.samba.java |
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On May 16, 2012, at 2:10 AM, Roy Mathews <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > We have an application to transfer file from mac to windows using smb(JCIFS) and another application in windows to handle these files. But when there is a invalid character like \ / : * ? " < > | in filename , it will get converted to another character. This creates issue in filename comparison issues, since we are saving actual filename in database. > How smb converts these filenames? > Is there any specific rule for this character conversion, so that we can use that converted characters in database? > > Regards, > Roy Mathew These all should be converted into UTF16, you should check out http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q117258/ it shows these conversions. George