Non-ASCII characters written via NFSv4 on non-UTF8 volumes appear as '?' when read via NFSv3
Applies to
- ONTAP 9
- non-UTF-8 volumes
- NFS
Issue
Non-ASCII characters written via NFSv4 appear as '?' when a directory listing is returned on an NFSv3 client.
Example:
[root@nas ~]# echo $LANG en_US.UTF-8 [root@nas ~]# touch /mnt/v4/normal_enUS/ä_test [root@nas ~]# ls /mnt/v4/normal_enUS <<< NFSv4 Mount ä_test [root@nasty-pypi ~]# ls /mnt/v3/normal_enUS <<<< NFSv3 Mount ?_test