Hi On 7 March 2013 11:40, Ali Bendriss <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > On Thursday, March 07, 2013 09:47:21 AM Michael Wood wrote: >> Hi >> >> On 6 March 2013 19:09, Ali Bendriss <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Wednesday, March 06, 2013 06:50:46 PM Michael Wood wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> >> >> On 6 March 2013 16:43, Ali Bendriss <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Hello, >> >> > >> >> > I'm running samba 4.0.3. >> >> > when I query the operatingsystem attribute using >> >> > ldapsearch ... -P 3 "(objectCategory=computer)" >> >> > >> >> > The operatingsystem value returned for "Windows 7 Professionnel N" >> >> > is operatingSystem:: V2luZG93c8KgNyBQcm9mZXNzaW9ubmVsIE4= >> >> > which translate to Windows 7 Professionnel N >> >> > But when I look at it using dsa.msc I can read "Windows 7 Professionnel >> >> > N" >> >> >> >> Are you worried about the "Â"? That's actually a non-breaking space >> >> character (like in HTML). >> > >> > my mistake in fact it return Windows + something not convertible to utf8. >> >> It is encoded as UTF-8. It should not be "converted to" UTF-8. >> >> That base64 encoded string decodes to: >> >> $ python -c 'print >> repr("V2luZG93c8KgNyBQcm9mZXNzaW9ubmVsIE4=".decode("base64"))' >> 'Windows\xc2\xa07 Professionnel N' >> >> which Python is quite happy to interpret as UTF-8: >> >> $ python -c 'print >> repr("V2luZG93c8KgNyBQcm9mZXNzaW9ubmVsIE4=".decode("base64").decode("utf-8") >> )' u'Windows\xa07 Professionnel N' >> >> If you look here: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-breaking_space#Encodings >> >> you will see that the UTF-8 encoding of a non-breaking space is the >> two bytes 0xC2 and 0xA0 which is exactly what your data contains. And >> the Unicode code point is U+00A0, which Python prints as u'\xa0'. >> >> So it seems something else is going on between getting the information >> from Samba and sending it to Postgres. >> > > Thank you for your valuable input. > You are perfectly correct the culprit was my "to_lower_case" routine. > > My I ask you some info about the date format used in samba. > In example the attribute whenCreated, whenChanged > whenCreated: 20120402125316.0Z > whenChanged: 20130208010036.0Z > > I can see : %Y%m%d > maybe after it is %H%M%S > But what is ".0Z" ?
Sorry, I don't know for sure, but I would guess that the .0 is milliseconds and the Z is probably UTC. http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/military/z.html -- Michael Wood <[email protected]> -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
