Re: Chinese problem in the ldif files.

[Wang Penghui <wangpenghui@realss.com>]

Dieter Kluenter wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Wang Penghui <wangpenghui@realss.com> writes:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > These days i want to add some entries to the local LDAP server.
> > And there were some chinese words in the *.ldif files.
> >
> > this is an example of ldif files:
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> > and it can be added successfully.but cannot display proper Chinese in
> > ldap client ,it will display lots of "?????".
> >
> > And if i exported it from the LDAP server,the Chinese are coded in base64.
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> > And if i encoded the chinese words to base64 manually.
> > it wasn't 5bCP6ZmI5piv5Liq5aW95Lq6
> > it was 5oiR5bCG57un57ut5YiG5p6Q5a6D55qE5YaF5qC4Cg==
> >
> > and i encoded the "5bCP6ZmI5piv5Liq5aW95Lq6" to normal ,and it cannot
> > display properly until i tried all the charsets.
> >
> > I want to know how the encoding and decoding works when the data input
> > /output the LDAP servers.
> > And wheather or not it have some problems in dealing with chinese words?
> >
> > My server is OpenLDAP 2.1.26 on gentoo linux.
> >    
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> You have to encode your chinese to UTF-8 not base64.
> /usr/bin/iconv -l will give you all known languages and
> iconv -f BIG-5 -t utf-8 -o utf-8-output.ldif big-5-input.ldif
> will convert your ldif file.
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>  
But my ldif files were already encoded with utf-8

> -Dieter
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