Is CP437 an obsolete default for 'DOS charset' in SMB shares?

[seanm]

Hi,

I'm experimenting with FreeNAS 11.1-U5 and have set up a test SMB share. In the default settings I see:
DOS charset: CP437
UNIX charset: UTF-8

The former strikes me as obsolete. I see UTF-8 as an option for DOS charset, should that be used these days? My SMB clients are all running modern OSes (Win 7+, macOS 10.11+, Ubuntu 16.04+)

Thanks,

Sean

 

[dlavigne]

Did you find a definitive answer to your question?

 

[seanm]

Nope. Yours has been the only reply here.

 

[pro lamer]

I see UTF-8 as an option for DOS charset, should that be used these days?

OT: AFAIR my colleague's MS-DOS 5.x nor 6.x box didn't support UTF-8... I don't know if it helps... Do other DOS distros support UTF-8? Does @seanm 's do?

@seanm : On the other hand the Windows command line may use DOS charsets... Is a test an option to you?

 

[seanm]

I've actually found a few docs on this topic here:
http://doc.freenas.org/11/services.html#smb

DOS charset : the character set Samba uses when communicating with DOS and Windows 9x/ME clients; default is CP437
UNIX charset : default is UTF-8 which supports all characters in all languages

So does modern Windows use the UNIX charset (despite its name)?

 

[seanm]

I've tried setting my DOS charset to UTF-8 and just run 'smbstatus -b' from the shell, and it reports:

"ERROR: invalid DOS charset: 'dos charset' must not be UTF8, using (default value) CP850 instead."

So I've filed a bug: https://redmine.ixsystems.com/issues/36833