Charsets and LDAP

[Andriy Kopystyansky]

Hi developers,
There is a kind of problem with LDAP, Turba abd IMP in countries with non-latin 
alphabet. A lot of companies/institutions use some local Directory Services - 
NDS, e-Directory whatever. As far as i know (this statement should be allover 
the text), all those services uses UTF-8 charset for non-latin data stored in 
(our company uses UTF-8 to store entries in ukrainian).
But mail standard for Ukraine is KOI8-U; KOI8-R - for Russia and so on..),
thats why I prefer to set my default charset in IMP to KOI8-U, but in this case 
i'm not able to search people over local LDAP since ldap-entries are in UTF!
To make those things work nicely i have to get names in 'To'/'CC' field (it 
will be in KOI8-U), recode it to UTF-8, pass to ldap-search, retrieve result, 
convert it back to KOI8-u and expand names :)

I'd like to know, maybe administrators/developers/programmers in non-latin 
countries have already made such widget?


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Best regards,
Andriy Kopystyansky.

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