id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	component	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	release
11531	Cannot authenticate with accented chars	anonymous	Nikolaos Papagrigoriou	"If there is an accented char (like ò) in the login field, the authentication fails with the following error (see the last row):
{{{
Trac[store] DEBUG: LDAPAuth: Unexpected error: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ""build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/ldapauth/store.py"", line 69, in check_password
    bind_cn = self._search_user(conn, user)
  File ""build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/ldapauth/store.py"", line 129, in _search_user
    self.search_filter % user)
  File ""/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ldap/ldapobject.py"", line 516, in search_s
    return self.search_ext_s(base,scope,filterstr,attrlist,attrsonly,None,None,timeout=self.timeout)
  File ""/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ldap/ldapobject.py"", line 509, in search_ext_s
    msgid = self.search_ext(base,scope,filterstr,attrlist,attrsonly,serverctrls,clientctrls,timeout,sizelimit)
  File ""/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ldap/ldapobject.py"", line 505, in search_ext
    timeout,sizelimit,
  File ""/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ldap/ldapobject.py"", line 96, in _ldap_call
    result = func(*args,**kwargs)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf2' in position 39: ordinal not in range(128)
}}}

May be a solution could be to encode('utf-8')?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1652904/unicodeencodeerror-ascii-codec-cant-encode-character

If this cannot be fixed in the TracLdapAuthPlugin code, what can be done to avoid this issue? Thanks"	defect	new	normal	TracLdapAuthPlugin	normal				0.12