On Feb 10, 2012, at 8:44 AM, Michael Ströder wrote: > [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. > > Do you mean RFC 3490 to 3492?
I mean whatever the spec are. I don't follow the either the DNS or email spaces closely, so I don't know off hand what the specs are... But I do know enough that international of both rely on applications encoding UTF-8 into ASCII for use in DNS and Email protocols, and by extension LDAP. -- Kurt
