Re: Filter character encoding independent

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On Sunday, July 08, 2012 7:22 PM +0200 Philip Brusten 
<philip.brusten@icts.kuleuven.be> wrote:

> Anyone?
>
>
> On 27/06/2012 16:17, Philip Brusten wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Our OpenLDAP information is stored in UTF-8 character encoding, like any
> > other default installation I guess.
> > Some of the records have special characters in their name, like Ã, Ã,
> > Ã, Ã, etc.
> >
> > We want to make a webapplication that can do lookups on these names,
> > without forcing the user to enter the correct characters.
> > E.g. if they search for "Francois", it should match all givenNames
> > "FranÃois" in LDAP.
> > However if people do search for "FranÃois" if should also match all
> > givenNames "FranÃois".
> >
> > I've looked for certain matching rules that could do this, but I haven't
> > found what I'm looking for so far.
> >
> > Can anybody help me out?

Approx indexing perhaps, which uses soundex?

Alternatively, you could try adding multiple values pairs, like

givenName: Francois
givenName;fr: FranÃois

etc.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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