[turba] LDAP an german umlauts again - not possible?

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Oliver Kuhl <okuhl at netcologne.de>:

> Chuck,
>
> thanks for your reply.
>
> Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:
>
>> Quoting Oliver Kuhl <okuhl at netcologne.de>:
>>
>>> So my question is, if I missed something or turba simply cannot handle
>>> german umlauts?
>> Seems like right now we don't have the code to support this. A patch 
>> would be great;
> Maybe I am able to create a patch. But maybe you can give me a hint.
>
> I have to configure somewhere (i.e. in sources.php), if the characterset
> needs base64 encoding for the cn field. But I'm not sure how to do this
> correctly. Maybe a simple flag? Or we _always_ encode those fields,
> which is a dirty way. There may be a way to do it without configuration
> by analysing each string.
>
> But how can I easily find out, if a utf8-encoded string has invalid
> characters for cn-fields? If I understood everything right, there will
> be some none-ASCII characters in it which I maybe can find out.

What exactly is causing problems with these strings? 8 bit chars? Then you
could use MIME::is8bit().

Jan.

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