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Adding convmv info suggested by Volker Lendecke.

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</para>
<para>
<indexterm><primary></primary></indexterm>
It is important that both the &smb.conf; file and the <filename>secrets.tdb</filename> should
be backed up before attempting any upgrade. The <filename>secrets.tdb</filename> file is version
encoded and therefore a newer version may not work with an older version of Samba. A backup
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</sect3>
<sect3>
<title>International Language Support</title>
<para>
<indexterm><primary>unicode</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>character set</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>codepage</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>internationalization</primary></indexterm>
Samba-2.x had not support for Unicode, instead all national language character set support in file names
was done using particular locale codepage mapping techniques. Samba-3 supports Unicode in file names, thus
providing true internationalization support.
</para>
<para>
<indexterm><primary>8-bit</primary></indexterm>
Non-English users whose national language character set has special characters and who upgrade naively will
find that many files that have the special chracters in the file name will see them garbled and jumbled up.
This typically happens with umlauts and accents because these characters were particular to the codepage
that was in use with Samba-2.x using an 8-bit encoding scheme.
</para>
<para>
<indexterm><primary>UTF-8</primary></indexterm>
Files that are created with Samba-3 will use UTF-8 encoding. Should the file system ever end up with a
mix of codepage (unix charset) encoded file names and UTF-8 encoded file names, the mess will take some
effort to set straight.
</para>
<para>
<indexterm><primary>convmv</primary></indexterm>
A very helpful tool is available from Bjorn Jacke's <ulink url="http://j3e.de/linux/convmv/">convmv</ulink>
work. Convmv is a tool that can be used to convert file and directory names from one encoding method to
another. The most common use for this tool is to convert locale encoded files to UTF-8 Unicode encoding.
</para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
</sect1>