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Ports Used by the FluidFS Cluster
FluidFS v3 Support Matrix 22
15 Internationalization
NAS Access
FluidFS v3 supports the Unicode /UTF-8 encoding allowing concurrent access from any UTF-8 compatible
client. All NAS interfaces expect UTF-8 characters for file, folder/directory, share and other names.
Consequently, all names are internally maintained and managed in UTF-8 format. While individual file
and directory names are each limited to 255 bytes, the number of characters might be further limited,
depending on the language being used, due to the variable-width nature of the UTF-8 encoding.
Management Access
Management data items, such as volume names, share names, directory names, user names, description
fields, and so on, are all maintained in UTF-8 format.
The Compellent Enterprise Manager, EqualLogic Group Manager, and PowerVault NAS Manager Web
UI all provide full UTF-8 support.
For CLI access, UTF-8 terminal applications, like XTERM, should be used. Terminal applications that do
not support UTF-8 characters, such as KTERM, are not recommended.
Potential Compatibility Issues
Some characters appear in multiple code points so the client OS actually determines the one that is used.
When incompatible client OS’s access the same file, the result may be either that incompatible characters are
not displayed or they are substituted by characters similar in shape.
Table 15-1 details potentially incompatible characters.
Table 15-1: Potentially Incompatible Characters
Character Windows UNIX Macintosh
WAVE DASH (~) U+FF5E (FULLWIDTH TILDE) U+301C (WAVE DASH) U+301C (WAVE DASH)
DOUBLE VERTICAL LINE (||) U+2225 (PARALLEL TO)
U+2016 (DOUBLE VERTICAL
LINE) U+2016 (DOUBLE VERTICAL
LINE)
MINUS SIGN (-)
U+FF0D (FULLWIDTH HYPHEN
MINUS)
U+2212 (MINUS SIGN) U+2212 (MINUS SIGN)
OVERLINE (￣) U+FFE3 (FULLWIDTH MICRON)
U+FFE3 (FULLWIDTH
MICRON)
U+203E (OVERLINE)
CENT SIGN (¢)
U+FFE0 (FULLWIDTH CENT
SIGN)
U+00A2 (CENT SIGN) U+00A2 (CENT SIGN)
POUND SIGN (#)
U+FFE1 (FULLWIDTH POUND
SIGN)
U+00A3 (POUND SIGN) U+00A3 (POUND SIGN)
NOT SIGN (¬) U+FFE2 (FULLWIDTH NOT SIGN) U+00AC (NOT SIGN) U+00AC (NOT SIGN)