[Bug 525435] Re: utf-8 characters cause permission denied error

[StuartYeates]

smbclient fails.

There is also an interesting feature where the columns of the directory
listing are out by one for this column. This leads me to suspect that
the problem may be in unicode normalisation. There are two ways of
representing ā in Unicode, a single character and an 'a' followed by a
compose character. Every sane person uses the single character, but alas
one of the standards in use in my organisation (MARC) uses the compose
character.

smb: \> ls M*
  ...
  Master Subject Guides 2008          D        0  Thu Feb 18 12:51:52 2010
  Master Subject Guides 2009          D        0  Sun Feb 21 13:38:19 2010
  Māori                              D        0  Mon Nov 23 16:47:39 2009

		59153 blocks of size 2097152. 6128 blocks available
smb: \> cd Māori
smb: \Māori\> ls
NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED listing \Māori\*

                59153 blocks of size 2097152. 6128 blocks available

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utf-8 characters cause permission denied error
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/525435
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