Chinese characters in mail search causes failed assertion in slapd

[Alfie John <alfiej@opera.com>]

Hi guys,

When searching for Chinese names in the "to:" field under Thunderbird, I get an assertion failing in slapd. I see that this is because the "mail" attribute in the default schema is of type "IA5 String" but the Chinese name that I'm searching for falls outside the character set.

The work around I have is to modify the "mail" attributetype in the core.schema from:

  attributetype ( 0.9.2342.19200300.100.1.3
    NAME ( 'mail' 'rfc822Mailbox' )
    DESC 'RFC1274: RFC822 Mailbox'
    EQUALITY caseIgnoreIA5Match
    SUBSTR caseIgnoreIA5SubstringsMatch
    SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.26{256} )

to:

  attributetype ( 0.9.2342.19200300.100.1.3
    NAME ( 'mail' 'rfc822Mailbox' )
    DESC 'RFC1274: RFC822 Mailbox'
    EQUALITY caseIgnoreMatch
    SUBSTR caseIgnoreSubstringsMatch
    SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.15{256} )

Can anyone see a problem with the above, or is there a better way of accomplishing this?

Thanks

Alfie

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