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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.002cm solid #000000;border-left:0.002cm solid #000000;border-right:0.002cm solid #000000;padding:0.097cm;"| Named for historical reasons, the GECOS field is mandatory and is used to store extra information (such as the user's full name). Utilities such as finger or getent access this field to provide additional user information. For a personal account, this entry would consist of <code>givenName</code> and <code>surname</code>, for example <code>Michael Eichenberger</code>. These values are taken from the owners entry (ou=people). For a service account, the attribute <code>sstDisplayName</code> from the corresponding service would be used for the content of this attribute. Please be aware, that this attribute is a '''IA5String''' (OID=1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.26) IA5 (almost ASCII) character set (7-bit). Does NOT allow extended characters e.g. é, Ø, å etc. The selfcare interface automatically creates the content of this attribute. The user (including the reseller and customer) can modify this attribute as desired (except for the IA5 restrictions).
You can use:
<code>~ $ echo "Tüpfelhyänenöhrchen" | iconv -f 'utf-8' -t 'ASCII//TRANSLIT' Tuepfelhyaenenoehrchen</code>
or:
<code>iconv("UTF-8", "ASCII//TRANSLIT", "Tüpfelhyänenöhrchen")</code>
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