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 <lists at mawer.org>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, m.meelis at 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.