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  • Comment: group names with umlauts are not properly decoded in group_c

    The quick fix did not work properly, as the german translation is encoded in iso-8859-1, leading to ugly encoding errors in a variety of places. Setting utf-8 as the default encodign would help for most western languages, though, so I'd encourage to switch the language encoding s to utf-8 wherever possible. If help were needed, just point at me ;) I found this on Microsofts pages...

    2012-04-11 09:02:02 PDT in Webmin

  • Comment: group names with umlauts are not properly decoded in group_c

    Yes, it is possible - as my system is set to utf-8, it isn't an iso-8859-1 encoding. The system doesn't actually know about iso-8859-1 at all: # locale LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8"...

    2012-04-05 17:47:50 PDT in Webmin

  • Comment: group names with umlauts are not properly decoded in group_c

    On a recent Debian 6 (Squeeze) I can create a group with umlauts, as I expected, because the system is fully utf-8 compliant. On the other hand, creating a group on the linux box is irrelevant, because the groups in questioon come from winbind, which in turn drags them from the Active Directory of a Windows Server 2003. There Umlauts are ok, because the group names are stored in utf-8...

    2012-04-05 04:08:32 PDT in Webmin

  • Comment: group names with umlauts are not properly decoded in group_c

    I'm fairly sure it isn't the right patch, as it's very specific to the german language - it would definitely not work for chinese implementation, f. e. Getting winbind to talk iso-8859-1 isn't right either, as it generally uses utf-8 for it's output. That seems reasonable to me. The thing is that Webmin doesn't even try to convert the output to the charset it uses - so utf-8 encoded output...

    2012-04-04 11:41:52 PDT in Webmin

  • group names with umlauts are not properly decoded in group_c

    I have Webmin 1.580 set up on a Debian 6 box and set it to use the German language. The group enumeration is done via "compat winbind" in /etc/nsswitch.conf, winbindd asking a german Windows server 2003 R2. A call to "getent group domänen-admins" yields: # getent group domänen-admins domänen-admins:x:10008:administrator So, we do have group names with umlauts. As...

    2012-03-31 12:51:36 PDT in Webmin

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