[Fedora-directory-users] question about required fields and I18N issues

[Richard Megginson]

speedy zinc wrote:

>How can I enter non-ascii data in the attribute,
>especially for dn, last name, first name, etc, and
>still can use the native language for searching?
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Firstly, the data must be encoded in utf8.  There are usually system 
utilities available to do native charset -> utf8 conversion - see "man 
iconv".  Secondly, you must use language tags for your attributes if you 
want them to be properly sorted/collated e.g.
cn: Celine Andre
cn;lang-fr: \de\55\85\44line Andre

My utf8 encoding is not correct, but you should get the general drift.

>For example, if I want to enter greeks or some eastern
>european characters, how can I do that?
>
>How do I configure the server to support i18n and have
>the proper collation?
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You shouldn't have to do anything.  As long as you make sure all data is 
utf8 encoded, the server should be able to handle it.  We use ICU 2.4 
which supports about 40 languages.

>How many languages does the console support, i.e. have
>the proper translation and display correctly?
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You mean, for how many languages has the console been localized for?

The console itself is written in Java, which has all of the unicode 
stuff built in, so it can handle the native charset -> utf8 conversion 
properly.  This assumes you have your LOCALE set up correctly with all 
of the fonts you need.

>I added an entry using ldapmodify, which contains
>non-ascii in the DN. It seems to get it correctly, as
>shown in the title bar of the property editor in the
>console. But the property editor and the console does
>not display correctly. The title bar displays
>correctly, 
>though.
>
>And the result from ldapsearch just shows a bunch of
>garbage characters.
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ldapsearch will display the data base64 encoded.  Just decode the base64 
to see your utf8 chars.

>All helps appreciated.
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