Re: question about required fields and I18N issues

[Richard Megginson <rmeggins@xxxxxxxxxx>]

speedy zinc wrote:

> --- Richard Megginson <rmeggins@xxxxxxxxxx> 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
>
>
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