Chen Shaopeng wrote: >speedy zinc wrote: > > >>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. >> >> >> > >The contents in the database has nothing to do with wether >the console can display or not though. If you see >"garbage" characters, it probably means the console actually >got the right data, except that it does not know how to >display correctly. Probably lack of the right font? > >You can change the display font to see if it's right, go to >Edit -> Preferences -> Font, and select a font that can >display your native language. > >And I don't think the console has localization for that many >languages either. It does not have localization for chinese >(maybe I'm wrong, but starting with "-l zh" or "-l zh_CN" >does not work). > >The annoying thing we had with FDS is that the uid must be in >7-bit ascii (duh!). I don't know what does the LDAP specs said >(I haven't looked up yet), but it makes it impossible to have >user login name in chinese. That's a shame, coz directory server >is such an important piece of software. > > The default configuration for the 7-bit-clean-checking plugin is for uid, mail and userPassword attributes. You can adjust it in dse.ldif or via plugin configuration screen in the Console. >To get around this, we add an attribute called "loginname", and >use that as the input to generate a hash, and use the hash as >the uid. According to the description of your project, you might >have to do this too :) > >Hope that helps. > >csp > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >-- >Fedora-directory-users mailing list >Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users > >
