Re: International chars w/ OpenLDAP+Mail clients

[Norbert Klasen <klasen@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>]

> It works for me.  I search myself in the directory, double click
> on the icon and Netscape jumps to (wrapped for clarity):

It works for me as well. I use Netscape 4.75 on W2k. When I double click
on an entry in the address book, a new browser window with the ldap url
in utf-8 is opened. 
I noticed however that Netscape seems to cache the ldap server settings
based on host names: On my linux box OpenLDAP 1.2.x runs on port 389 and
2.0.1 on port 1389. I created an entry in the address book for both of
them and set the authdn in the prefs.js (to different values). However
if I access port 1389 the credentials from the other entry are used. The
same is the case with the cid setting. I set it to "iso-8859-1" for the
1.2.x server. Now if I access the 2.0.1 server, a 2-byte utf-8 character
is displayed as 2 (weird) latin-1 chars.

I then assigned an alias ip to eth0 and started openldap 2.0.1 on this
interface. Now Netscape binds with the right credentials and UTF-8 chars
are displayed correctly.

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