[dev] Re: Special characters in fullname

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Roel Gloudemans <roel at gloudemans.info>:
>>> Is this a simple case of adding a php htmlspecialchars at the right
>>> places, or are those special characters e.g. violation some mail RFC
>>> (hence the should not even appear in a fullname)
>>
>> It should work out of the box if you have the required PHP extensions
>> installed and use a charset that your server supports.
>
> You're right. It seems to work when I create a fullname with the
> special characters using the Horde options interface. In the horde
> installation the fullname is gotten from an Active Directory using a
> hook. I suspect now it has something to so with the character set used
> bij Windows, ANSI probably whereas Horde is ISO. Any ideas to how to
> handle this?

Convert the string in the hook with String::convertCharset() to 
NLS::getCharset().

Jan.

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