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Localized Macintosh clients may not be able to interoperate properly with SFM shares on computers running Services for Macintosh (SFM), even though Windows 2000 provides native support for multiple languages. CAUSEThis problem occurs because the MacOS does not currently support the Unicode standard, but does support ANSI. RESOLUTIONTo resolve this problem and support both Japanese and U.S. clients from a U.S.-based server, change the default system locale to Japanese on the U.S.-based server. To do this:
STATUSMicrosoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Windows 2000. MORE INFORMATION
By default, when a Windows NT client saves a file to a computer running Windows NT Server, the computers use Remote Procedure Call (RPC) to save the file as Unicode. The U.S.-based server stores DBCS files properly because Windows NT has native support for Unicode, even if it does not have the code pages installed to properly view the file. Thus, a Japanese Windows NT or Windows 2000 client can save and retrieve a DBCS file from a U.S.-based server and display it properly.
The default code page for Windows NT and Windows 2000 is defined in the following registry location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\CodePageFor example, if the default Windows NT code page setting is US English (code page 409), SFM maps the Unicode file to the ASCII/ANSI table. If the file is actually a Kanji file, the contents are interpreted incorrectly by this process, and thus are displayed incorrectly on the Japanese Macintosh client. Currently, there is no way for SFM to detect that the client is localized to a different language other than the server running SFM because of limitations in the AppleTalk File Protocol Specifications. Therefore, when all files are converted from Unicode, they are mapped to the code page translation table of the default system locale. This procedure occurs regardless of the localization of the Macintosh client. For additional information about Unicode, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Q227483 Windows 2000 Supports Unicode Version 2.0The Unicode Consortium's home page is located at: http://www.unicode.org/ Additional query words:
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