this.useUnicode = true;
            } else {
                this.useUnicode = false;
                this.negotiatedFlags2 &= 0xFFFF ^ SmbConstants.FLAGS2_UNICODE;
            }
        } else {
            this.useUnicode = ctx.getConfig().isUseUnicode();
        }

        if (this.useUnicode) {
            log.debug("Unicode is enabled");
        } else {

     * @return the useUnicode
     */
    public final boolean isUseUnicode() {
        return this.useUnicode;
    }

    /**
     * Sets whether to use Unicode encoding for this message
     * @param useUnicode
     *            the useUnicode to set
     */
    public final void setUseUnicode(final boolean useUnicode) {
        this.useUnicode = useUnicode;
    }

    /**

    int writeString(final String str, final byte[] dst, final int dstIndex) {
        return writeString(str, dst, dstIndex, useUnicode);
    }

    int writeString(final String str, final byte[] dst, int dstIndex, final boolean useUnicode) {
        final int start = dstIndex;

        try {
            if (useUnicode) {
                // Unicode requires word alignment
                if ((dstIndex - headerStart) % 2 != 0) {

        dst[start + ANDX_RESERVED_OFFSET] = (byte) 0x00;
        andxOffset = dstIndex - headerStart;
        writeInt2(andxOffset, dst, start + ANDX_OFFSET_OFFSET);

        andx.useUnicode = useUnicode;
        if (andx instanceof AndXServerMessageBlock) {

            /*
             * A word about communicating header info to andx smbs
             *

        byte[] dst = new byte[100];
        smbComRename = new SmbComRename(config, oldFileName, newFileName);

        // Set unicode to false
        Field useUnicodeField = ServerMessageBlock.class.getDeclaredField("useUnicode");
        useUnicodeField.setAccessible(true);
        useUnicodeField.setBoolean(smbComRename, false);

        int dstIndex = 0;

        // When

    void send(final ServerMessageBlock request, final ServerMessageBlock response) throws SmbException {

        connect(); /* must negotiate before we can test flags2, useUnicode, etc */

        request.flags2 |= flags2;
        request.useUnicode = useUnicode;
        request.response = response; /* needed by sign */
        if (request.digest == null) {
            request.digest = digest; /* for sign called in encode */

    protected SecureRandom random;
    /** Whether to use command batching for improved performance */
    protected boolean useBatching = false;
    /** Whether to use Unicode encoding for strings */
    protected boolean useUnicode = true;
    /** Force use of Unicode encoding regardless of negotiation */
    protected boolean forceUnicode = false;
    /** Whether SMB signing is preferred but not required */
    protected boolean signingPreferred = false;

    @DisplayName("Should parse boolean properties correctly")
    void testBooleanProperties() throws CIFSException {
        // Given
        Properties props = new Properties();
        props.setProperty("jcifs.smb.client.useUnicode", "true");
        props.setProperty("jcifs.smb.client.disablePlainTextPasswords", "false");
        props.setProperty("jcifs.util.loglevel", "1");

        // When

    /** Whether to use Unicode strings */
    boolean USE_UNICODE = Config.getBoolean("jcifs.smb1.smb.client.useUnicode", true);
    /** Whether to force Unicode usage */
    boolean FORCE_UNICODE = Config.getBoolean("jcifs.smb1.smb.client.useUnicode", false);
    /** Whether to use NT status codes */

        value = props.getProperty("jcifs.encoding");
        if (value != null) {
            this.oemEncoding = value;
        }

        value = props.getProperty("jcifs.smb.client.useUnicode");
        if (value != null) {
            this.useUnicode = Boolean.parseBoolean(value);
        }

        value = props.getProperty("jcifs.smb.client.useBatching");
        if (value != null) {