Special Characters
34 Netscape Directory Server Gateway Customization Guide
Special Characters
Non-breaking Space
If the client’s character set lacks a character for non-breaking space, but has
ideographic space, non-breaking spaces are converted to ideographic spaces
before character set conversion.
See the changeHTML directive, in the Gateway configuration file dsgw.conf.
Query Strings
When the Gateway needs to embed a UTF-8 string in an URL, it encodes it in a
query string (the query string is the part of the URL that follows the question
mark).
This works around a problem with Japanese NT, which garbles environment
variables that are in UTF-8 (or any character set except Shift_JIS). The web
server passes information to the Gateway CGI programs in environment
variables, but the query string environment variable $QUERY_STRING is URL-
encoded, so it can handle UTF-8 (from NT’s point of view, it’s ASCII).
Gateway Locales
The Gateway’s default language is US English. Release 4.0 of the Directory
Server Gateway interface is also translated into the following locales:
• Japanese
•German
•French
Support for Multiple Locales
A single Gateway instance supports clients in multiple locales concurrently.
