Stefan Palme wrote:

Hi,

using an OpenLDAP server installation for several things. One thing is a shared addressbook which is used by different persons with different client applications. Some of them have a locale of "de_DE.utf8", some of them work with "de_DE.latin1", some of them use windows and so have a win-1250-or-whatever encoding.

When creating new addressbook entries these are transfered from the client to the server in the clients charset encoding. When clients with other encodings read these entries they seem somehow broken - of course.

How to solve this problem? When the server known the "client encoding" the server could automatically convert clients data into e.g. utf8 before storing it. Before sending data back to a client it could convert all the stored utf8-data into client's encoding.

But I did not found a way to tell the server the client's encoding, so this seems to be no way. Are there any working solutions for this?

LDAP by specs uses UTF-8. "THE" solution consists in fixing those clients that do not comply with specs.

p.

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