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Re: [[cat-users]] CAT IdP names (keywords) transliteration broken for Greek


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  • From: Tomasz Wolniewicz <twoln AT umk.pl>
  • To: cat-users AT lists.geant.org
  • Subject: Re: [[cat-users]] CAT IdP names (keywords) transliteration broken for Greek
  • Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 11:20:06 +0200
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Thanks for letting us know. We will try to get this fixes ASAP.

Tomasz Wolniewicz


W dniu 12.05.2021 o 10:11, Zenon Mousmoulas pisze:
> Hello,
>
> as of recently CAT user API also provides “keywords" per IdP, namely
> institution names in all languages plus their ASCII transliteration.
>
> Such transliteration is broken for names in Greek:
>
> curl https://cat.eduroam.org/user/API.php?action=listAllIdentityProviders |
> jq '.[2].keywords[][]’
>
> "GRNET S.A."
> "ΕΔΥΤΕ Α.Ε."
> "????? ?.?.”
>
> The last line should have been:
> “EDYTE A.E."
>
> Presumably the PHP iconv extension is used for this:
> https://github.com/GEANT/CAT/blob/release_2_0/core/IdPlist.php#L124
>
> Whether the above works or not thus depends on the system library (libc or
> libiconv) providing iconv facilities; for example glibc 2.31 or later
> includes a working Greek-to-ASCII transliteration table:
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12031
>
> In light of the above I would like to ask if it is at all possible to have
> the CAT application host environment updated, so that such transliteration
> works as expected.
>
> Thanks,
> Zenon Mousmoulas
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