[OGo-Users] back_sql and "Umlaute"

[Florian Reitmeir]

On Mit, 17 J=C3=A4n 2007, Christian Naumer wrote:

> Hi,
> I've set up back_sql and this is working just fine. System is CentOS 4.4.
> However, all entries containing German Umlaute are not displayed correctl=
y. All
> the fields containing Umlaute (e.g. givenName) are not displayed at all. =
There
> is an error message from back_sql:
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> backsql_entry_addattr(): failed to merge value "J�rg W." for attri=
bute
> "givenname"
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> I know ldap usually takes UTF-8 encoding and the sql db is in Latin1 but =
since
> it works for others I thought there has to be something I could do.
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> Any idea?

make your database UTF8.. simply dump->recode->restore, OGO tells the
database to map the charset to latin1 for its own purpose.

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Florian Reitmeir