[OpenAFS] Unicode filenames with Win client (fwd)

[Stephen Joyce]

Anyone have any insight regarding this?  Here's how to duplicate:

	Store roaming profiles (including "Favorites") in AFS... allow that
		folder to roam with the profile.
	Visit your favorite foreign-character-intensive site (I used
		www.yahoo.co.kr).  Add this file to your favorites.
	Log out (which syncs the profile, including the favorites, into
		AFS).

	SSH into your favorite linux/solaris client and look at the
		resultant file name.  For me, it looks something
		like ??! ???.lnk*

Because ? isn't a legal character in windows filenames, if you try to use
the roaming profile again without first removing the offending characters,
the profile can't be copied.

I've verified this behavior using OpenAFS 1.2.6 and OpenAFS 1.2.10 on WinXP
SP1.

Interestingly, if you simply save the page to the local filesystem (C:) and
then attempt to copy it into AFS, Windows says "Cannot copy <file>: The
filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect"... I'm
assuming that the roaming-profile sync process ignores this error and
squashes the illegal characters to ?'s...???

Cheers,
Stephen
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Stephen Joyce
Systems Administrator                                            P A N I C
Physics & Astronomy Department                         Physics & Astronomy
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill         Network Infrastructure
voice: (919) 962-7214                                        and Computing
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:57:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Stephen Joyce <stephen@physics.unc.edu>
To: openafs-info@openafs.org
Subject: [OpenAFS] Unicode filenames with Win client

Symptom:  While storing files in AFS from Windows (XP, SP1), a filename
containing foreign-language characters is mangled.  Specifically unicode
characters are squashed to question marks, which aren't legal characters in
Windows (posing problems the next time the file is accessed).

I'm seeing this using the OpenAFS 1.2.6 client.  Is this a known problem
with a known solution?  Am I incorrect in blaming this problem on the AFS
client?

Cheers,
Stephen
--
Stephen Joyce
Systems Administrator                                            P A N I C
Physics & Astronomy Department                         Physics & Astronomy
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill         Network Infrastructure
voice: (919) 962-7214                                        and Computing
fax: (919) 962-0480                               http://www.panic.unc.edu

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