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

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Chen Shaopeng wrote:

>speedy zinc wrote:
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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. 
>>
>>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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>The contents in the database has nothing to do with wether
>the console can display or not though. If you see
>"garbage" characters, it probably means the console actually
>got the right data, except that it does not know how to
>display correctly. Probably lack of the right font?
>
>You can change the display font to see if it's right, go to
>Edit -> Preferences -> Font, and select a font that can
>display your native language.
>
>And I don't think the console has localization for that many
>languages either. It does not have localization for chinese
>(maybe I'm wrong, but starting with "-l zh" or "-l zh_CN"
>does not work).
>
>The annoying thing we had with FDS is that the uid must be in
>7-bit ascii (duh!). I don't know what does the LDAP specs said
>(I haven't looked up yet), but it makes it impossible to have
>user login name in chinese. That's a shame, coz directory server
>is such an important piece of software.
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The default configuration for the 7-bit-clean-checking plugin is for 
uid, mail and userPassword attributes.  You can adjust it in dse.ldif or 
via plugin configuration screen in the Console.

>To get around this, we add an attribute called "loginname", and
>use that as the input to generate a hash, and use the hash as
>the uid. According to the description of your project, you might
>have to do this too :)
>
>Hope that helps.
>
>csp
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