[Freeipa-devel] python-ldap has unicode issues

[Kevin McCarthy]

Apparently this is a well known (and debated) issue.  See
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=71fe4e760707200552w648b6fc8v21770939525c14b9%40mail.gmail.com

> Today passing unicode argument to ldap functions raise an exception,
> then no accidents is possible :-) On the other side, with unicode
> support, things could accidentally work as expected.  But this is only
> speculation about witch inconvenient is the worst.

If I translate the strings using s = s.encode('utf-8'), it makes it into
the ldap database just fine:

http://pbnj.usersys.redhat.com:8080/usershow?uid=haoren

The strings that come back from ldap are utf-8 encoded, and will "work"
execpt that the length will be wrong.  e.g.: 好 will report a length of
3 instead of one, until we encode that back to unicode strings using
  s = unicode(s, 'utf-8')

-Kevin

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