UTF-8 support and other quirks in the LDAP backend (in 2.2.4).

[Fredrik Ohrn]

On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Andrew Bartlett wrote:

> "Shahms E. King" wrote:
> > 
> > > One problem we uncovered is that the backend needs to convert all strings
> > > stored in LDAP to/from UTF-8. This mainly affects users real names which
> > > look quite borked if they contain non 7bit ASCII chars. Some LDAP servers
> > > will let you use any charset but OpenLDAP likes to enforce UTF-8 (also the
> > > LDAPv3 standard mandates it).
> > 
> > Well, that's what I get for living in the US, i18n bugs don't tend to
> > bite me in the butt.
> 
> Yes, we have a patch in the works to do this for the ADS LDAP code, and
> once that is in I'll look at how to merge it for pdb_ldap.
> 

Great! I'd be happy to help backporting and testing in 2.2.x


Regards,
Fredrik

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Fredrik Öhrn                               Chalmers University of Technology
ohrn at chl.chalmers.se                                                  Sweden