Does jcifs support japanese language?

> We own Log Monitoring application where smb protocol is used through jcifs
> to access and read the logs remotely.
>
> The monitoring works fine for Windows English but when start to monitor
> Japanese logs it fails.
>
>
>
> Can anyone guide me on this? Does jcifs support Japanese language (unicode)
> at all?

> Thanks, Mike!
>
> Your hint on code pages works.
> We use the InputStreamReader constructor which have String Charset parameter and things works.
>
> Thank you very much for your help on this.
>
> -- Paresh
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael B Allen [mailto:ioplex@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 9:09 PM
> To: Devalekar, Paresh
> Cc: Agare, Amol
> Subject: Re: [jcifs] Does jcifs support japanese language?
>
> CIFS uses either UTF-16LE or a default codepage. The default codepage
> used by JCIFS is Cp850 or US_ASCII if Cp850 is not available. You
> could trying setting jcifs.encoding = Shift_JIS.
>
> Otherwise, I don't know. I would have to see captures.
>
> Also, please try to send all non-sensitive communication to the JCIFS
> mailing list.
>
> Mike
>
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Devalekar,
> Paresh<Paresh_Devalekar@...> wrote:
>> Hi Mike,
>>
>> Thanks for reply.
>>
>> Do you mean that JCIFS works if Windows is using UTF-16 only?
>>
>> We have issue: BPM Express for Log Management => problem in monitoring UTF-8 / SJIS encoded Japanese log files using SMB protocol via JCIFS.
>>
>> So in above case, if used UTF-16 does problem gets resolved?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Paresh
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michael B Allen [mailto:ioplex@...]
>> Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 3:00 AM
>> To: Devalekar, Paresh
>> Cc: jcifs@...
>> Subject: Re: [jcifs] Does jcifs support japanese language?
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Devalekar,
>> Paresh<Paresh_Devalekar@...> wrote:
>>> We own Log Monitoring application where smb protocol is used through jcifs
>>> to access and read the logs remotely.
>>>
>>> The monitoring works fine for Windows English but when start to monitor
>>> Japanese logs it fails.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Can anyone guide me on this? Does jcifs support Japanese language (unicode)
>>> at all?
>>
>> Please collect two network packet captures:
>>
>> 1. Japanese Windows client and server performing authentication and
>> file listing.
>>
>> 2. JCIFS trying and failing with the same server and parameters.
>>
>> I will compare the two and see how different things are. In theory it
>> should work. I would need to compare captures to see how far away
>> JCIFS is from working with Japanese WIndows. If Japanese Windows is
>> using UTF-16 surrogates it's probably not worth the trouble.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> PS: Do not send packet captures to the mailing list. Send them to me directly.