[Product-Developers] LDAPMultiPlugins developers: please read this - possible localization problem

[Wichert Akkerman]

Previously Alberto Lopes wrote:
> Now, there is some new information I forgot to share: remember when I told
> that the UnicodeDecodeError started appearing to any authenticated user with
> at least a group with a accented char (i.e. non ascii) in the group CN?
> Well, I was looking at the AD plugin in ZMI, searching for users that
> reported the problem and users that reported not having any problem, and I
> got to verify that the memberOf info of the affected users was not displayed
> correctly: the accented chars were displayed like japanese chars or the
> square that indicates unknown char.
> 
> I wonder if that might give a hint on how to solve the problem or is just a
> ZMI displaying information.

The ZMI in general is really bad at handling unicode characters, but
that does not affect the underlying functionality.

Wichert.

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