[i18n] non-translation but charset related problem + solution

[Ivan Noris]

Hello,
	I know this is not the appropriate list, and I'm sorry, but I don't
have time to subscribe to other lists and maybe you can confirm my
problem/solution too..

	I configured Turba 1.2 RC1 to use shared LDAP directory. The LDAP is
Sun One Directory Server running on Sol8, using UTF8 encoding. I used
"'encoding' => 'utf8'" in the sources.php LDAP server definition, but
the charset was "mangled". The problem seems to be in the PHP function
utf8_decode, (always?) returning ISO-8859-1 string.

	We use Latin2 (iso8859-2) encoding - so the solution was to replace the
original line in turba/lib/Driver/ldap.php

$result[$field] .= utf8_decode($entry[$field][$j]);

with following one:

$result[$field] .= recode("utf8..latin2", $entry[$field][$j]);

I had to install php4-recode package (on Debian) first.

If anybody had the same problem, maybe this hack could be of any help
for you. Or, if there's something I really missed, please, let me know.

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                                         Ing. Ivan Noris, noris at bgs.sk
                        System engineer, Business Global Systems, a.s.
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