AdminP Is good.. But perhaps this beat it..
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Roy through me a curve-ball yesterday whilst doing some FirM testing. He tried to create a user with a completely Unicode-string name. Not a single character could be represented using ASCII. Surprisingly, most of it worked, but AdminP barfed on the filename.
Which isnt surprising, lets face it. The internet address would have been fun to type too:
So. How does one cope in Domino when faced with localised names such as this ? Well, Domino has coped with this for many years - just use the 'Alternate' name (and certifier) support. Just dont put non-ASCII style names into Notes as 'name' information, as it'll be extraordinarily hard to find those later..
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Posted by Kerr At 14:02:33 On 13/05/2008 | - Website - |
Posted by Keith Strickland At 14:23:11 On 13/05/2008 | - Website - |
I assume, the problem is the mapping of the Unicode (or LDBCS) to a 8 bit character set using the configurated codepage of the underlying OS.
But that's only an "educated guess", since we had no problems so far using German umlauts on a German Domino server on a German Windows system (with German language settings).
Would be interesting to get more test results...
Thomas
Posted by Thomas Bahn At 14:23:47 On 13/05/2008 | - Website - |
You've got a server called "Malaria"???
Posted by John Lindsay At 15:35:19 On 13/05/2008 | - Website - |
That's nothing. I remember Ed Brill's mail server name starting with "WTF Mail...".
Posted by Patrick M At 15:48:54 On 13/05/2008 | - Website - |
In this case, we added Alternate Name support to our product to actually support a Russian customer (with Russian code page, etc, etc).
And yes. For a while, our servers were named after diseases. I have Malaria, Pants has Typhoid, and Roy has Yellow Fever. However...
At Lotusphere 2003, when we launched FirM, we had two test servers called Obesity and Flatulence.. And 30 minutes before the hall opened, we had to change over to 'normal' names, as it was decided that having 'flatulence' and 'obesity' pop up on screen during the demos would be bad news indeed.
---* Bill
Posted by Wild Bill At 17:47:54 On 13/05/2008 | - Website - |
When I used the "alternate name" support we've built into FirM there was no problem.
Using Lotus Multi-Byte Character Set (LMBCS) support only gets around some of the problems. If the native OS can't (for instance) use one of the characters as part of the filename then whatever you do to support these characters within Notes/Domino it's still going to barf at the OS file system level.
Needless to say, our test installs of FirM will allow you to use any character anywhere. That way we can find out "where NOT to allow that" and set default configurations with the appropriate values and let clients know too.
Posted by Roy At 13:43:45 On 15/05/2008 | - Website - |