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[Tom Ivar Myren <tom.myren AT uninett.no>]

Yes, I think it is a good suggestion to introduce a config option. I
thnik one option for all languages will be sufficient.
At least for .no all institutions have a short form (used in realm) that
does not contain special characters - eg in the case of Høgskole i
Østfold this would be HiOF.

/Tom


On 15.04.2013 10:05, Tomasz Wolniewicz wrote:
> I think this problem could be used to open a wider discussion. Should
> we introduce another config option - a short name for the institution
> used for filename generation and if such an option were introduced,
> should it be one for all languages, or like the institution name,
> allow multiple language variants. We did have another case when the
> institution name contained both the long and the short version and
> when shortened this resulted in the short version repeated twice. This
> is something we would not be able to do anything about, unless we
> would allow the admin to add fixed string for this.
>
> Of coures we would program stuff in such a way that when no short name
> was available, the current algorithm would be used instead.
>
> So, any opinions?
>
> Tomasz
>
>
> W dniu 2013-04-15 09:49, Stefan Winter pisze:
>> Hi,
>>
>>> Høgskolen i Østfold have reported a minor "problem" with CAT profile
>>> filename.
>>>
>>> For the institution "Høgskolen i Østfold" a file with the name
>>> "eduroam_his_W7.exe" is produced.
>>> That is the letter Ø in the beginning is ignored, and HiS is a
>>> different
>>> institution.
>>> Not a hugh problem, but it would be good if ÆØÅ could be included - or
>>> one option is to substitute Æ = ae, Ø - oe, Å = aa
>> Thanks for the report!
>>
>> We currently translate from the "pretty-print" user interface name to
>> filesystem file names by converting to US-ASCII, *ignoring* all
>> non-ASCII characters.
>>
>> We could to this with *transliteration* instead, which would turn the Ø
>> into an O (probably; this is a PHP-internal decision).
>>
>> This would create a filename with "HiO" instead (good enough?) - it is
>> really not very advisable to keep the literal Ø as part of the file
>> name. You never know if some operating systems / filesystems don't like
>> these characters.
>>
>> I'll leave it to Tomasz Wolniewicz to try this out though, this is his
>> code, not mine :-)
>>
>> Stefan
>>
>>> Br
>>> Tom Myren
>>> UNINETT AS - 7465 Trondheim, tlf. 73 55 79 00 - fax 73 55 79 01
>>> Direkte innvalg 73 55 79 14 - mobil 92600199
>>> http://www.uninett.no
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject:     filnavn på CAT
>>> Date:     Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:21:23 +0000
>>> From:     Nils O.B Bekken 
>>> <nils.o.bekken AT hiof.no>
>>> To:     Tom Ivar Myren 
>>> (tom.myren AT uninett.no)
>>>  
>>> <tom.myren AT uninett.no>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hei
>>>
>>> Et lite spørsmål, det ser ut til at vi har en liten utfordring med Ø
>>> i CAT systemet.
>>> Det er ikke noe kjempeproblem, men jeg ser at når jeg legger inn
>>> standardnavn slik:
>>>
>>> Institusjonsdetaljer
>>> Land         Norge
>>> Institusjonsnavn    standard/andre språk    Høgskolen i Østfold
>>> Institusjonsnavn    English(GB)    Østfold University College
>>> Institusjonsnavn        Høgskolen i Østfold
>>>
>>> Så får fila som produserer ved nedlasting navn eduroam-W7-His.exe og
>>> det kan være litt misvisende.
>>> Hvis jeg setter institusjonsnavn til f.eks. HiOf så blir navn
>>> deretter, men det blir igjen feil i lista.
>>>
>>> Har du vært borte i noe tilsvarende?
>>>
>>> Mvh
>>>
>>> Nils.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Nils Olav B. Bekken - Senioringeniør - Høgskolen i Østfold -
>>> IT-Drift - 1757 Halden
>>> Besøksadresse Braveien 4 - Remmen - 1783 Halden -
>>> +47 69 21 53 52 - 
>>> <sip:nils.o.bekken AT hiof.no>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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