Access Server and OpenVPN Connect client are commercial offerings based on the OpenVPN 2.1.x tree. As such, they lack many of the features that came in later community versions (2.2.x+). I'd guess they don't support UTF-8, either.
I would use OpenVPN 2.3-alpha1 as it should be very stable and has most of the latest features. You can use the with Access Server, too. -- Samuli Seppänen Community Manager OpenVPN Technologies, Inc irc freenode net: mattock > Well that's the legacy that i got from the previous developer. So just > wanted to know if it supports UTF8. And it will really help if you can > point out the exact version's of OpenVPN access server and OpenVPN > connect client which support UTF8 username's and Passwords. > > Thanks > Gauri Bhave > > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Gert Doering <g...@greenie.muc.de > <mailto:g...@greenie.muc.de>> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 12:14:28PM +0530, Gauri Bhave wrote: > > Can you tell me which version of openvpn started supporting utf8. > I am > > using openvpn-2.1_rc15 but all my utf8 characters get converted > to '_' > > (underscores), when i see the log on the server side and AD gives > me an > > error authentication failed. > > 2.3_alpha1 > > (Just as a side remark - I don't understand why anyone would want > to use > a release *candidate* of something that has been properly released > over > 3 years(!) ago - and the 2.1 train is now up to 2.1.4, and there is > 2.2.2 as well...) > > gert > > -- > USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW! > > //www.muc.de/~gert/ <http://www.muc.de/%7Egert/> > Gert Doering - Munich, Germany > g...@greenie.muc.de <mailto:g...@greenie.muc.de> > fax: +49-89-35655025 > g...@net.informatik.tu-muenchen.de > <mailto:g...@net.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> > >