A high percentage of a recent batch of Japanese visitors entered bogus email 
addresses into our PF 3.4.1/RHEL6 captive portal... or so it seems. 

Could this be an encoding problem? It looks like the captive portal web page is 
UTF-8, perl is (probably) UTF-8, default system locals is en_US.UTF-8, postfix 
and SMTP would *not* allow non-ASCII characters in headers (not exactly sure 
how postfix would behave), and MySQL says: 

| character_set_client                    | latin1|
| character_set_connection                | latin1|
| character_set_database                  | latin1|
| character_set_filesystem                | binary|
| character_set_results                   | latin1|
| character_set_server                    | latin1|
| character_set_system                    | utf8  |

There's both a language and a time issue talking to our guests... we'll try to 
do that, but has anyone else seen a problem where someone with a multi-byte 
language enters a valid email address, but it gets mangled?

Our local i18n guru asks:

Are the email addresses in full-width characters? Also highly unlikely, but 
there are both full-width (2byte) and half-width (1byte) versions of latin 
letters in the Japanese systems. if they were using the wrong ones (full-width) 
then that might make a difference. 
-- 
Rich Graves http://claimid.com/rcgraves
Carleton.edu Sr UNIX and Security Admin

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