libatalk: create utility function convert_utf8_to_mac() #2507
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The convert_utf8_to_mac() function is based on utompath() which is implemented in etc/afpd/desktop.c but of a simpler, earlier form – we remove two duplicated implementations in nad and dbd respectively
In comparison, utompath() can handle other input charsets than UTF-8, while also doing Mac filename mangling after charset conversion
As a side note, utompath() in etc/afpd/desktop.c cannot easily be moved to libatalk since the mangling logic also sits in the afpd code, and has deep coupling with other afpd logic such as dirlookup(). A much larger refactoring would be needed here.