In previous Samba versions, no charset conversion was done for filenames by default...

diff --git a/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/Unicode.xml b/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/Unicode.xml
index 396703a705a14b1249094588a12002c08c1cdd20..0f618e9d5b85e6af2b87f471d8ed69bb096d84e5 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/Unicode.xml
+++ b/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/Unicode.xml
@@ -103,7 +103,8 @@ Samba knows of three kinds of character sets:
                This is the charset used internally by your operating system. 
                The default is <constant>UTF-8</constant>, which is fine for most 
                systems, which covers all characters in all languages. The default
-               in previous Samba releases was <constant>ASCII</constant>. 
+               in previous Samba releases was to save filenames in the encoding of the 
+               clients, for example cp850 for western european countries.
                </para></listitem>
        </varlistentry>