Subject: LDAP interface and un-American characters

From: Søren Larsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 16:47:00 +0200 (MEST)

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In our LDAP server (UM slapd 3.3) we encode ISO-8859-1 characters in
UTF-8, which should be the proper thing to do with LDAPv3.  When Pine
4.02 retrieves records containing non-US-ASCII characters, these are not
decoded properly.  Instead, they are displayed directly as two separate
characters.  As an example (if you can't view ISO-8859-1 characters, the
following will look truly weird!), the Danish letter "ø" (quoted-
printable representation =F8) is encoded in the database as the
two-character sequence =C3=B8.  When Pine retrieves, say, the record
containing information about yours truly, the given name appears as
"SÃ¸ren".  This may not seem like the-end-of-civilization-as-we-know-it
to American readers, but given the frequence with which 8-bit characters
appear in European names, a bug fix would be very much appreciated.

Sincerely,
Søren Larsen

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Søren Larsen                      Email: [email-masked]
Dept. of Math. & Comp. Sci.       URL:   http://www.imada.ou.dk/~larsen/
Odense University, Campusvej 55   phone: +45 6557 2312
DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark         fax:   +45 6593 2691

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