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DRP's avatar
DRP
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May 07, 2015

Looking for iRule to convert non-ascii character to ascii

We have users having French character in their name and so F5 convert entire att.dn into hex string. And so comparison against the DN (to see what OU the user is in) breaks.   attr.dn' set to '0x...
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What_Lies_Bene1's avatar
What_Lies_Bene1
Icon for Cirrostratus rankCirrostratus
May 08, 2015

Are these characters actually supported by ASCII? If not, they can't be converted into ASCII surely?

This is a tough one for a newbie to be facing.

Something like this might work:

set hex_string [what_ever_you_use_to_get_the_hex_dn]
set some_variable [binary format a* [encoding convertto utf-8 [$hex_string]]
log local0. "The converted string is ${some_variable}"

The string, scan and expr commands can also be used in some fashion but without a way to test I can't confidently say what will work I'm afraid.