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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Thank you so much for spending valuable time of yours for the reply.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span><font face="verdana,sans-serif">As per my understanding of RFC 2865,</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span><font face="verdana,sans-serif">It is clearly written in section 5.0 of RFC 2865 that </font></span></p><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-IN" style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">“</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="COLOR: #2e2c2c">text<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>1-253 octets containing UTF-8 encoded 10646 [7] </span></font><span lang="EN-IN" style="COLOR: #2e2c2c"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">characters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> T</span>ext of length zero (0) MUST NOT be sent; </font></span><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-IN" style="COLOR: #2e2c2c">omit the entire attribute instead.</span><span lang="EN-IN">”</span></font></pre>
<pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><span lang="EN-IN"> </span><span lang="EN-IN"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">So, It has to be converted into UTF-8 as per <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">RFC 3629 - UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646 </b>at the time of sending </font></span></pre>
<pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><span lang="EN-IN"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"> ACCESS REQUEST packet to RADIUS server by NAS and same it has to be decoded by NAS when it is being received from server </font></span></pre>
<pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><span lang="EN-IN"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"> in ACCESS ACCEPT packet.</font></span></pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><span lang="EN-IN"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"></font></span> </pre>
<pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><span lang="EN-IN"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"> </font></span><span lang="EN-IN"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">If it would be compatible to each other than </font></span><span lang="EN-IN"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">What is the need of including above statement in RFC-2865 clearly?</font></span></pre>
<pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><span lang="EN-IN"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"> </font></span><span lang="EN-IN"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Sir,</font></span></pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><span lang="EN-IN"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"> I am totally confused by your statement that “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">there is no need of conversion as it is compatible”.</b></font></span></pre>
<pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><span lang="EN-IN"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"> I have searched a lot regarding this thing and I am not able to find any such thing as said by you. </font></span></pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">
<font face="verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-IN"> I am also able to find one open source library named </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">iconv</span></b><span lang="EN-IN"> which can does this encoding and decoding task. </span></font></pre>
<pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><span lang="EN-IN"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"> </font></span></pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><span lang="EN-IN"></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span lang="EN-IN"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Can you please tell me that? </font></span></b></pre>
<pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span lang="EN-IN"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">From where I can find the information regarding US-ASCII & UTF-8 compatibleness as per your reply or any RFC number if it is known to you?</font></span></b></pre>
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<pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span lang="EN-IN"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Looking forward to your positive reply at your earliest,</font></span></b></pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span lang="EN-IN"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">- Karnik Jain</font></span></b></pre>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Alan DeKok <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aland@deployingradius.com">aland@deployingradius.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">karnik jain wrote:<br>> Hi,<br>><br>> I have downloaded the free radius server and successfully installed on<br>> linux machine..<br>> Can you please tell me that does your this implimentation supports the<br>
> US-ASCII to UTF-8 conversion<br><br></div> They are compatible. No conversion is required.<br>
<div class="im"><br>> as you are saying this is compliant to RFC 2865 ?<br><br></div> Yes.<br><font color="#888888"><br> Alan DeKok<br>-<br>List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See <a href="http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html" target="_blank">http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html</a><br>
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