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Re: German Umlauts are converted and also not accepted

Hi,

> As my name contains a german umlaut I do get an error adding 'Götz
> Reinicke' for the gecko.
> 

Do you mean 'gecos' with that? The 'gecos' attribute from the NIS-schema
is an IA5 string [1], which is equal to ASCII. You won't be able to use
special characters with that one.


> Also for 'displayName', 'cn' and 'givenName' the 'ö' is automatically
> replaced by 'oe'.
> 
> If I change the entry in the ldap by hand in the apache DS, the 'ö' is
> accepted accept for the geckos. An 'ü' in 'o' is manually accepted to.
>

How is your ldif file encoded? 'cn', 'givenName' and so on are defined
as SUB to 'name', which is defined with "Directory Sting" syntax [2] aka
UTF-8.


Regards,
Christian Manal


[1]
<http://www.alvestrand.no/objectid/1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.26.html>

[2]
<http://www.alvestrand.no/objectid/1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.15.html>