Dell FluidFS NAS Solutions Administrator's Guide

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Japanese Compatibility Issues

Administrators using the CLI are able to enter Japanese characters in configuration parameters only through the web interface, because XTERM applications such as KTERM does not enable you to use UTF-8 characters.

The following table details the Japanese incompatible characters.

Character	UNIX	Windows	Macintosh
WAVE DASH (~)	U+301C (WAVE DASH)	U+FF5E (FULLWIDTH TILDE)	U+301C (WAVE DASH)
DOUBLE VERTICAL LINE (\|\|)	U+2016 (DOUBLE VERTICAL LINE)	U+2225 (PARALLEL TO)	U+2016 (DOUBLE VERTICAL LINE)
MINUS SIGN (-)	U+2212 (MINUS SIGN)	U+FF0D (FULLWIDTH HYPHEN MINUS)	U+2212 (MINUS SIGN)
OVERLINE (￣)	U+FFE3 (FULLWIDTH MICRON)	U+FFE3 (FULLWIDTH MICRON)	U+203E (OVERLINE)
CENT SIGN (¢)	U+00A2 (CENT SIGN)	U+FFE0 (FULLWIDTH CENT SIGN)	U+00A2 (CENT SIGN)
POUND SIGN (#)	U+00A3 (POUND SIGN)	U+FFE1 (FULLWIDTH POUND SIGN)	U+00A3(POUND SIGN)
NOT SIGN (¬)	U+00AC (NOT SIGN)	U+FFE2 (FULLWIDTH NOT SIGN)	U+00AC (NOT SIGN)

The NAS cluster solution provides a special code page for the CIFS service, to support portability between protocols. If you are working in a multi-protocol environment and wish to share files and directories between protocols, it is recommended to use this option.

When the CIFS service is configured to use UTF-8-JP for the internal encoding (UNIX code page), Windows incompatible encoding is mapped to the appropriate UNIX/ Mac O/S encoding on NAS cluster solution. This ensures that in any case correct and incorrect characters are mapped correctly.