speedy zinc wrote: >--- Richard Megginson <rmeggins at redhat.com> wrote: > > > >>speedy zinc wrote: >> >> >> >>>We are working on a school project to build a >>>"universal" directory service to support a global >>>village (:) on which everyone can logon using >>> >>> >>their >> >> >>>native language. People can talk to each other >>>using their native language, but it gets translated >>>in real-time (don't expect too much, just a school >>>project). And we use FDS as the underlying service >>>for user authentication, user profile, etc. >>> >>>We want to allow user to register themselves, >>>in their own language. So, username etc, should be >>> >>> >>in >> >> >>>the native language. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>Sure. This is also quite common for large global >>enterprises who want >>to provide self service or locally administered >>access to the directory >>server. The logic to convert from the local charset >>to utf8 must be >>done in the application - LDAP only provides for >>utf8 data. What is >>registration application? Is it open source? What >>language is it >>written in? For C apps, iconv is provided by most >>*nix OSes. There is >>a way to do this in Windows - I can't remember, but >>there is some code >>that the ldapsearch, ldapmodify commands use. I >>have no idea about >>Mac. It's very easy to do this in Java - strings >>are stored in Unicode >>internally, and the conversion code is built into >>the String class. >> >> >> > >But the console does not even display the content >"correctly". We use the java sdk to get the data, and >it is correct. > >We are a team of 5, with 5 different lanaguages. We >aall >develop on Linux, using utf8 environment. We can add >entries using native characters, but despite setting >our environment to the right locale, the console just >displays some garbage characters. > > I'm not sure then. I know it's tricky to get the console to know how to display the local charset correctly. Hopefully one of our i18n experts will chime in here. >regards > >sz > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com > >-- >Fedora-directory-users mailing list >Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3312 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/389-users/attachments/20051107/4e0b261a/attachment.bin
