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Re: strange (swedish) characters
Quoting Markus Jardemalm <markus.jardemalm@redina.se>:
> Thanks Paul,
> your scriptlet did the work for me ;-). Since I anyway use a perlscript
> to read the source and insert into the directory this was the absolute
> best solution.
>
> However, I use my directory with e-mail clients for lookups. But the
> swedish character is not visible from Netscape e-mail client. I can
> imagine that this has to do with the different character encodings
> (Netscape probably use another encoding).
>
> Is there a way to display my swedish characters in Netscape e-mail
> client? Decode the searchresult to a suitable encoding?
I know one way to solve this, but it might be a little too difficult for you --
it depends on whether you have access to a Perl guru.
I have an application that makes use of LDAPSEARCH via the command-line
interface on a Linux system, for a Web application. Because of similar issues
with the display of UTF-8 characters, what I did was write a Perl wrapper
around the LDAPSEARCH interface, that accepts the same parameters, makes the
search, then returns the results, but with UTF-8 converted to ISO8559-1 (or
HTML entities for HTML).
Now, you could do the same thing with Perl via a socket. Reconfigure SLAPD to
listen to a different port (maybe 636?) Then create a Perl daemon that listens
to port 389, and which passes on what it gets to SLAPD, then munges the results
as per your requirements.
I might be way off-base here, and there are performance issues, but it's a nice
hack. Hopefully someone smarter than me can come up with a way so that SLAPD
can format its output using HTML entities. :-)
Yet another option is to make the Netscape client use a Unicode font. For
example, see the folliwng URL:
http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/directory/install30/gateway.htm
I'll paste the relevant part for you below:
Configuring Communicator 4.x
To configure the Communicator 4.x, do the following:
Install a font that supports Unicode.
Go to the Navigator panel Edit|Preferences|Appearance|Fonts.
In the "For the Encoding" pull-down menu, select Unicode.
In the Variable Width Font pull-down list, select a Unicode font set (for
example, Bitstream Cyberbit).
In the Fixed Width Font pull-down list, select a Unicode font set (for example,
Bitstream Cyberbit).
Configure the browser for the preferred language. Go to
Edit|Preferences|Browser|Languages. Configure the list of languages so that the
best description of the user's language is first, followed by less-exact
descriptions and other acceptable languages. For example, a speaker of British
English who also reads Spanish might list English/United Kingdom [en-GB] first,
followed by English [en] and then Spanish [es].
Hope this helps!
cheers
Paul Gillingwater