djabberd vs chinese name

[Martin Atkins]

Chinian Wang wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I just install djabberd and build up my own Authentication and 
> RosterStorage module.
> 
> Everything is fine except the Chinese Roster name.  (RosterItem::name)
> 
> I have tried 2 different clients (Pandion & Exodus), both don't show the 
> correct Chinese name.
> 
> Where should I start to look?
> 

Hi Chinian,

We have seen problems before with non-ASCII characters that get stored 
in the SQLite roster storage backend, though I don't think it's ever 
really been investigated. I had always assumed it was a bug in the 
SQLite bindings, but you say that you are writing your own RosterStorage 
so perhaps there is a different problem.

I would guess that the important thing is to make sure that your strings 
are marked as being utf8 so that the non-ASCII characters can be 
preserved. Unfortunately I can't be any more help than this, since I'm 
not very familiar with Perl's unicode handling.

All the best,
Martin