[Fedora-directory-users] question about required fields and I18N issues
Richard Megginson
rmeggins at redhat.com
Tue Nov 8 04:17:02 UTC 2005
speedy zinc wrote:
>--- Richard Megginson <rmeggins at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>>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.
>>
>>
>>
>
>But the console does not even display the content
>"correctly". We use the java sdk to get the data, and
>it is correct.
>
>We are a team of 5, with 5 different lanaguages. We
>aall
>develop on Linux, using utf8 environment. We can add
>entries using native characters, but despite setting
>our environment to the right locale, the console just
>displays some garbage characters.
>
>
I'm not sure then. I know it's tricky to get the console to know how to
display the local charset correctly. Hopefully one of our i18n experts
will chime in here.
>regards
>
>sz
>
>
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