Character sets supported by the NAS server to communicate with NFS clients and NIS servers include:
| Communicating with | Character encodings supported | Default character encoding |
|---|---|---|
| NFSv2 and NFSv3 clients | Latin-1, UTF-8, EUC-KR, EUC-JP, and EUC-CN | Latin-1 |
| NFSv4 clients | UTF-8 | UTF-8 |
| NIS servers | Latin-1 and UTF-8 | Latin-1 |
You can specify the character encoding to be used when communicating with NFS clients and/or NIS servers using the protocol-character-set command.
- File, directory, and export names to/from NFSv2 and NFSv3 clients.
- Symlinks to/from NFS clients.
- NIS user and group names.
- LDAP user and group names.
- Namespace links.
- Namespace directories.
- Communication with NFSv4 clients.
When multi-tenancy is not enabled, the configured character encoding applies on a cluster-wide basis (all clients communicate with the server using the same encoding). When multi-tenancy is enabled, the character encoding is configured on a per-EVS basis, allowing the use of multiple character sets on the same NAS server/cluster.
To correctly display the characters during communication between the client and the NAS server, both the program used by the the client to communicate with the NAS server and the NAS server itself must be configured with the same character encoding and locale.