[DIRSTUDIO-963] Why UTF-8 is escaped in DN strings since 2.0.0?

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0-M8 (2.0.0.v20130628)
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0-M9 (2.0.0.v20150606-M9)
• Component/s: studio-ldifeditor
• Labels: newbie
• Assignee: Stefan Seelmann
• Reporter: Dmitri Chubarov
• Created: 25/Nov/13 04:51
• Updated: 18/Apr/20 11:41
• Resolved: 21/May/14 21:28

Description

I have a directory that includes many DNs containing UTF-8 characters. I expect the characters to be displayed correctly in the LDAP browser tree. The server claims to support LDAP v3.

Recently I installed Apache Directory Studio 2.0.0-M8 and realized that new entries created with the Directory Studio have UTF-8 characters escaped when a DN is created, e.g. "TESTСкаж...,dc=ru" is replaced with "TEST\D0\A1\D0\BA\D0\B0\D0\B6...,dc=ru".

Since escaped secuences make the tree illegible in the LDAP Browser I had to manualy rename new entries using ldapmodrdn utility from OpenLDAP distribution.

I have tested few prior versions of Apache Directory Studio. Here is a summary of the results:

1.5.3 - entries created with UTF-8 characters in DN as expected.
2.0.0-M3 - the Directory fails to load with ArrayIndexOutOfBounds exceptions
2.0.0-M7, 2.0.0-M8 when DN is formed by the Directory Studio all UTF-8 characters are escaped.

Is this an expected behaviour or is this a regression? If this behaviour is expected is there a way to get UTF-8 characters back into the DNs?

Issue Links

• is blocked by: DIRAPI-192 Rdn.escapeValue() should not escape unicode characters
• is related to: DIRSTUDIO-861 Errors with DNs containing non-ASCII values on Active Directory
• is related to: DIRSTUDIO-938 LDAP Browser shows non ascii symbols as escaped
• relates to: DIRSTUDIO-819 Cannot open entries with DNs with UTF8 characters (Active Directory)