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MAKE_SMBCODEPAGE(1)
NAME
  make_smbcodepage - construct a codepage file for Samba

SYNOPSIS
  make_smbcodepage c|d codepage inputfile outputfile

DESCRIPTION
  This tool is part of the  Samba suite.

  make_smbcodepage compiles or de-compiles codepage files for use with the
  internationalization features of Samba 2.2

OPTIONS
  c|d  This tells make_smbcodepage if it is compiling (c) a text format code
       page file to binary, or (d) de-compiling a binary codepage file to
       text.

  codepage
       This is the codepage we are processing (a number, e.g. 850).

  inputfile
       This is the input file to process. In the c case this will be a text
       codepage definition file such as the ones found in the Samba
       source/codepages directory. In the d case this will be the binary
       format codepage definition file normally found in the lib/codepages
       directory in the Samba install directory path.

  outputfile
       This is the output file to produce.

SAMBA CODEPAGE FILES
  A text Samba codepage definition file is a description that tells Samba how
  to map from upper to lower case for characters greater than ascii 127 in
  the specified DOS code page. Note that for certain DOS codepages (437 for
  example) mapping from lower to upper case may be non-symmetrical. For
  example, in code page 437 lower case a acute maps to a plain upper case A
  when going from lower to upper case, but plain upper case A maps to plain
  lower case a when lower casing a character.

  A binary Samba codepage definition file is a binary representation of the
  same information, including a value that specifies what codepage this file
  is describing.

  As Samba does not yet use UNICODE (current for Samba version 2.2) you must
  specify the client code page that your DOS and Windows clients are using if
  you wish to have case insensitivity done correctly for your particular
  language. The default codepage Samba uses is 850 (Western European). Text
  codepage definition sample files are provided in the Samba distribution for
  codepages 437 (USA), 737 (Greek), 850 (Western European) 852 (MS-DOS Latin
  2), 861 (Icelandic), 866 (Cyrillic), 932 (Kanji SJIS), 936 (Simplified
  Chinese), 949 (Hangul) and 950 (Traditional Chinese). Users are encouraged
  to write text codepage definition files for their own code pages and donate
  them to samba@samba.org. All codepage files in the Samba source/codepages
  directory are compiled and installed when a 'make install' command is
  issued there.

  The client codepage used by the smbd server is configured using the client
  code page parameter in the smb.conf file.

FILES
  codepage_def.<codepage>

  These are the input (text) codepage files provided in the Samba
  source/codepages directory.

  A text codepage definition file consists of multiple lines containing four
  fields. These fields are:

  · lower: which is the (hex) lower case character mapped on this line.

  · upper: which is the (hex) upper case character that the lower case
    character will map to.

  · map upper to lower which is a boolean value (put either True or False
    here) which tells Samba if it is to map the given upper case character to
    the given lower case character when lower casing a filename.

  · map lower to upper which is a boolean value (put either True or False
    here) which tells Samba if it is to map the given lower case character to
    the given upper case character when upper casing a filename.

  codepage.<codepage> - These are the output (binary) codepage files produced
  and placed in the Samba destination lib/codepage directory.

INSTALLATION
  The location of the server and its support files is a matter for individual
  system administrators. The following are thus suggestions only.

  It is recommended that the make_smbcodepage program be installed under the
  /usr/local/samba hierarchy, in a directory readable by all, writeable only
  by root. The program itself should be executable by all. The program should
  NOT be setuid or setgid!

VERSION
  This man page is correct for version 2.2 of the Samba suite.

SEE ALSO
  smbd(8) smb.conf(5)

AUTHOR
  The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew
  Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open Source
  project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed.

  The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer. The man page
  sources were converted to YODL format (another excellent piece of Open
  Source software, available at ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/
  <URL:ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
  release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for Samba 2.2 was done
  by Gerald Carter

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