create User with zmprov with german characters like üöäß in names, etc

[andre]

Hej,

i want to create a user via console with the following statement.

/opt/zimbra/bin/zmprov ca user.006@test.de 123qwe cn "Mäx Müster" co Deutschland company "Test GmbH" displayName "Mäx Müster" givenName Mäx l Hagen ou Support sn Müster st Niedersachsen street "Dorfberg 9a" postalCode 31216 telephoneNumber "05221/821930" zimbraMailCanonicalAddress max.muster@privat.de

It works fine if i don't use german characters like üöäß and in the webinterface it works with german characters fine, too. but i want to create the users automatically via console.

Any Ideas ?

Thanks

[CrypTom]

Hi

I've got exactly the same problem. I tried different values for the environment variables LANG or LANGUAGE. No success.

This is really important to us, as our scripts syncronize about 1000 zimbra users with our pupil/teacher db.

Anything I can try on my server?

Thanks

Tom

[schemers]

Can you please file a bug on this so we can get someone to look at it? Sounds like we are incorrectly losing charset info and are probably using a stream where we should be using a reader.

[CrypTom]

Hi

I found a solution to the problem on my server:

I always did a `sudo - zimbra` before executing the user migration script (always with the '-').

I told you earlier that I tried with different system locales (UTF-8, ISO-8859-1). What I did not realize was, that the zimbra user has the following statement in its .bash_profile file (which was automatically installed in /opt/zimbra):

export LANG=C

After I changed this line to

export LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1

the zmprov commands with äöü in the names worked as expected.

Hope this helps! Kind regards

CrypTom