8.3 Internationalization

Samba has a limited ability to speak foreign tongues: if you need to deal with characters that aren't in standard ASCII, some options that can help you are shown in Table 8.3. Otherwise, you can skip over this section.

Table 8.3: Networking Configuration Options

Option	Parameters	Function	Default	Scope
client code page	Described in this section	Sets a code page to expect from clients	850	Global
character set	Described in this section	Translates code pages into alternate UNIX character sets	None	Global
coding system	Described in this section	Translates code page 932 into an Asian character set	None	Global
valid chars	string (set of characters)	Obsolete: formerly added individual characters to a code page, and had to be used after setting client code page	None	Global

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