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

[Richard Megginson]

speedy zinc wrote:

>--- Richard Megginson <rmeggins at redhat.com> wrote:
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>>speedy zinc wrote:
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>>>We are working on a school project to build a 
>>>"universal" directory service to support a global
>>>village (:) on which  everyone can logon using
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>>their
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>>>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
>>>      
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>>in
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>>>the native language.
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>>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.
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>But the console does not even display the content 
>"correctly". We use the java sdk to get the data, and
>it is correct. 
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>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.
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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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