Re: German Umlauts are converted and also not accepted

[DT Piotr Wadas <pwadas@dtpw.pl>]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Christian Manal wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> > As my name contains a german umlaut I do get an error adding 'Götz
> > Reinicke' for the gecko.
> > 
> 
> Do you mean 'gecos' with that? The 'gecos' attribute from the NIS-schema
> is an IA5 string [1], which is equal to ASCII. You won't be able to use
> special characters with that one.
> 
> 
> > Also for 'displayName', 'cn' and 'givenName' the 'ö' is automatically
> > replaced by 'oe'.
> > 
> > If I change the entry in the ldap by hand in the apache DS, the 'ö' is
> > accepted accept for the geckos. An 'ü' in 'o' is manually accepted to.
> >
> 
> How is your ldif file encoded? 'cn', 'givenName' and so on are defined
> as SUB to 'name', which is defined with "Directory Sting" syntax [2] aka
> UTF-8.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Christian Manal

When you decide which attribute is to store utf-8 string, look into 
libnss-ldap manual page to find out how to map other attribute to be used 
as filling for "gecos" NSS field.

Regards,
DT