From: Heiko Hund Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:14:35 +0100 Message-ID: <8817069.bUavoJz72o@...1526...> In-Reply-To: References: <1322057655-15463-1-git-send-email-heiko.hund@...1489...> MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] UTF-8 X.509 distinguished names List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: Alon Bar-Lev Cc: "openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" On Wednesday 23 November 2011 14:53:06 Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > As this is inserted into environment, what happens if locale is not > unicode enabled? Then the script will receive funny looking strings depending on your locale= 's=20 code page. However, this is nothing that's being introduced with this patch= ,=20 as mentioned in the commit message 2627335 already puts UTF-8 user names an= d=20 passwords into the environment. > I think this may break some configurations. Aren't the environments lacking UTF-8 locales broken with regards to non-AS= CII=20 characters anyways? As UTF-8 encoding doesn't change any character < 128 no= n- ASCII DNs, user names and password will be passed to scripts just like in t= he=20 good old days. Regards Heiko --=20 Heiko Hund | Software Engineer | Phone +49-721-25516-237 | Fax -200 Astaro a Sophos Company | Amalienbadstr. 41 Bau 52 | 76227 Karlsruhe | Germ= any Commercial Register: Mannheim HRA 702710 | Headquarter Location: Karlsruhe =20 Represented by the General Partner Astaro Verwaltungs GmbH Amalienbadstra=DFe 41 Bau 52 | 76227 Karlsruhe | Germany=20 Commercial Register: Mannheim HRB 708248 | Executive Board: Gert Hansen, Markus Hennig, Jan Hichert, G=FCnter Junk, Dr. Frank Nellissen