[email protected] wrote: > On Feb 7, 2012, at 1:03 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >> When searching for Chinese names in the "to:" field under Thunderbird, I see >> asserted_value_validate_normalize() not returning LDAP_SUCCESS in filter.c. >> This >> is because the "mail" attribute in core.schema is of type "IA5 String" but >> the >> Chinese name falls outside the character set. > > No, it's because Thunderbird failed to convert the email address to form > expected. It should have applied the "To Ascii" conversion as defined in > the EIA and IDNA specs.
Glancing over RFC 5335 and RFC 5336 the situation is not so clear since there are UTF-8 headers introduced therein. Also both RFCs have status EXPERIMENTAL. Any other specs I should read? Ciao, Michael.
