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Unicode Rewrite

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One of the biggest changes in Samba 3.0 will be the rewrite to use unicode strings throughout Samba. While the SMB protocol includes negotiation options that allow Samba to negotiate non-unicode operation we have found that a combination of non-unicode bugs in NT and uniform handling of internationalisation has forced us to rewrite Samba to use Unicode throughout. Jeremy Allison is doing most of the work on the Unicode rewrite.

One big advantage of this rewrite will be that bugs involving multibyte character sets should be found much faster, as they will affect the primary Samba developers (who all speak single byte encoded languages).

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