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8.3.1 client code page

The character sets on Windows platforms hark back to the original concept of a code page. These code pages are used by DOS and Windows clients to determine rules for mapping lowercase letters to uppercase letters. Samba can be instructed to use a variety of code pages through the use of the global client code page option in order to match the corresponding code page in use on the client. This option loads a code-page definition file, and can take the values specified in Table 8.4.

Table 8.4: Valid Code Pages with Samba 2.0
Code Page	Definition
`437`	MS-DOS Latin (United States)
`737`	Windows 95 Greek
`850`	MS-DOS Latin 1 (Western European)
`852`	MS-DOS Latin 2 (Eastern European)
`861`	MS-DOS Icelandic
`866`	MS-DOS Cyrillic (Russian)
`932`	MS-DOS Japanese Shift-JIS
`936`	MS-DOS Simplified Chinese
`949`	MS-DOS Korean Hangul
`950`	MS-DOS Traditional Chinese

You can set the client code page as follows:

[global]
	client code page = 852

The default value of this option is 850. You can use the make_smbcodepage tool that comes with Samba (by default in /usr/local/samba/bin ) to create your own SMB code pages, in the event that those listed earlier are not sufficient.