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Re: international chars in ldap dbs
Hi,
I uncovered an old message I had lying around. A while back Netscape and
Bitstream teamed up to make a free unicode font called Cyberbit. I haven't
had a chance to really check out how to use it or it's support, but here's
the URL:
ftp://ftp.bitstream.com/cyberbit/cyberbit.exe
mark
Mark Wilcox wrote:
> Hi,
> That might be a limitation on the current address book which isn't
> really a LDAP server, but emulates LDAP from a client-side db.
>
> LDAP v3 supports unicode (UTF-8) as does the Netscape JAVA LDAP SDK
> (which is a "duh" because JAVA natively supports UTF-8). Unfortunately
> most of our operating systems don't fully support unicode so any extra
> characters must be BASE-64 encoded otherwise you will get no results.
>
> I'm suprised that the Address Book didn't at least send back BASE-64
> encoded (which to the untrained eye, will look very strange indeed :)
>
> Mark
>
> Axel Klatt wrote:
>
> > Is there a source of information about using special chars
> > in the ldp-db. Netscape communicators addressbook e.g. seems not
> > to understand german 'Umlaute' äöü :-/
> >
> > Axel
> >
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