Re: kern/151845: [smbfs] [patch] smbfs should be upgraded to support Unicode

[Antony Mawer]

The following reply was made to PR kern/151845; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Antony Mawer <li...@mawer.org>
To: bug-fo...@FreeBSD.org, m.me...@easybow.com
Cc:
Subject: Re: kern/151845: [smbfs] [patch] smbfs should be upgraded to support Unicode
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 06:55:35 +1100

There were some patches floating around to add Unicode support to
smbfs as long as 5 years ago, apparently inspired b work done on Mac
OS X. These are still available here:

http://people.freebsd.org/~imura/kiconv/

The smbfs code hasn't changed too much in that time (it's pretty much
unmaintained), so I don't think it would be too much work to dust them
off and get them to apply against 8.x or -CURRENT.

If someone out there with some knowledge of this area were able to
spare a few hours to look at this would be a huge step in bringing
SMBFS up to a modern usable level - at the moment it is largely
useless as soon as you hit files with non-ASCII characters in it.
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