Internationalization

European Character Support

HP CIFS provides European character support for Windows 95, XP and NT clients. HP CIFS also supports MS-DOS and Windows 3.x clients using the PC850 code page. To enable European character support for Windows 95, XP and NT, which includes applications running in DOS-PROMPT windows under these environments, the HP CIFS server must be started with the smb.conf variables character set and client code page set correctly.

For configuration examples, refer to “Step 4, Modifying the Configuration in this chapter”.

In order to view the file and directory names and contents correctly from the UNIX side for various languages, you must set the locale to the appropriate value. Here are two examples:

export LANG=de_DE.iso88591
-or-
export LANG=de_DE.iso88915@euro

The HP CIFS server must be restarted for the character set or client code page parameters change to take effect. You cannot administer resource permissions on shares that contain German umlauts in their names from the Windows 95 Explorer. Permissions can be administered if the resource is accessed through the Network Neighborhood. Microsoft has acknowledged this behavior but has indicated that it is by design and no fixes will be forthcoming.

Japanese Character Support

HP CIFS supports Japanese character sets as follows:

For configuration examples, refer to “Step 4, Modifying the Configuration in this chapter.”