speedy zinc wrote:
We are working on a school project to build a
"universal" directory service to support a global
village (:) on which everyone can logon using their
native language. People can talk to each other
using their native language, but it gets translated
in real-time (don't expect too much, just a school
project). And we use FDS as the underlying service
for user authentication, user profile, etc.
We want to allow user to register themselves,
in their own language. So, username etc, should be in
the native language.
Sure. This is also quite common for large global enterprises who want
to provide self service or locally administered access to the directory
server. The logic to convert from the local charset to utf8 must be
done in the application - LDAP only provides for utf8 data. What is
registration application? Is it open source? What language is it
written in? For C apps, iconv is provided by most *nix OSes. There is
a way to do this in Windows - I can't remember, but there is some code
that the ldapsearch, ldapmodify commands use. I have no idea about
Mac. It's very easy to do this in Java - strings are stored in Unicode
internally, and the conversion code is built into the String class.
--- Richard Megginson <rmeggins(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>speedy zinc wrote:
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>
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>>How can I enter non-ascii data in the attribute,
>>especially for dn, last name, first name, etc, and
>>still can use the native language for searching?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>Firstly, the data must be encoded in utf8. There
>are usually system
>utilities available to do native charset -> utf8
>conversion - see "man
>iconv". Secondly, you must use language tags for
>your attributes if you
>want them to be properly sorted/collated e.g.
>cn: Celine Andre
>cn;lang-fr: \de\55\85\44line Andre
>
>
>
Does that mean I can not enter native language (even
if my system is using UTF8 encoding) directly in
the console?
>>For example, if I want to enter greeks or some
>>
>>
>eastern
>
>
>>european characters, how can I do that?
>>
>>How do I configure the server to support i18n and
>>
>>
>have
>
>
>>the proper collation?
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>>
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>You shouldn't have to do anything. As long as you
>make sure all data is
>utf8 encoded, the server should be able to handle
>it. We use ICU 2.4
>which supports about 40 languages.
>
>
>
>>How many languages does the console support, i.e.
>>
>>
>have
>
>
>>the proper translation and display correctly?
>>
>>
>>
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>You mean, for how many languages has the console
>been localized for?
>
>
>
Yeah, since it is in java, if I change my environment,
shouldn't the console displayed in the right language?
thanks
chris p.
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