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

[Richard Megginson]

speedy zinc wrote:

>We are working on a school project to build a 
>"universal" directory service to support a global
>village (:) on which  everyone can logon using their
>native language. People can talk to each other
>using their native language, but it gets translated
>in real-time (don't expect too much, just a school
>project). And we use FDS as the underlying service
>for user authentication, user profile, etc.
>
>We want to allow user to register themselves,
>in their own language. So, username etc, should be in
>the native language.
>  
>
Sure.  This is also quite common for large global enterprises who want 
to provide self service or locally administered access to the directory 
server.  The logic to convert from the local charset to utf8 must be 
done in the application - LDAP only provides for utf8 data.  What is 
registration application?  Is it open source?  What language is it 
written in?  For C apps, iconv is provided by most *nix OSes.  There is 
a way to do this in Windows - I can't remember, but there is some code 
that the ldapsearch, ldapmodify commands use.  I have no idea about 
Mac.  It's very easy to do this in Java - strings are stored in Unicode 
internally, and the conversion code is built into the String class.

>--- Richard Megginson <rmeggins at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>speedy zinc wrote:
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>>>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?
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>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
>>
>>    
>>
>
>Does that mean I can not enter native language (even
>if my system is using UTF8 encoding) directly in
>the console?
>
>  
>
>>>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
>>    
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>>>the proper collation?
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>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
>>    
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>>>the proper translation and display correctly?
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>You mean, for how many languages has the console
>>been localized for?
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>>    
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>
>Yeah, since it is in java, if I change my environment,
>shouldn't the console displayed in the right language?
>
>thanks
>
>chris p.
>
>
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