Re: (ITS#7157) UTF-8 support for "mail" attribute

[Kurt@OpenLDAP.org]

On Feb 10, 2012, at 8:44 AM, Michael Ströder wrote:

> Kurt@OpenLDAP.org wrote:
>> On Feb 7, 2012, at 1:03 PM, alfiej@opera.com wrote:
>> 
>>> When searching for Chinese names in the "to:" field under Thunderbird, I see
>>> asserted_value_validate_normalize() not returning LDAP_SUCCESS in filter.c. This
>>> is because the "mail" attribute in core.schema is of type "IA5 String" but the
>>> Chinese name falls outside the character set.
>> 
>> No, it's because Thunderbird failed to convert the email address to form
>> expected.  It should have applied the "To Ascii" conversion as defined in
>> the EIA and IDNA specs.
> 
> Do you mean RFC 3490 to 3492?

I mean whatever the spec are.  I don't follow the either the DNS or email spaces closely, so I don't know off hand what the specs are...

But I do know enough that international of both rely on applications encoding UTF-8 into ASCII for use in DNS and Email protocols, and by extension LDAP.

-- Kurt