Hi.. Im trying to get some information out of a windows sever 2003 chinese active directory system so let's say encoding is probably big5 or utf-8
what im doing is simliar to ldapsearch in shell with my python script using python ldap module the result is not the correct encoding.. i've look many places and tried many different encoding on the top of the script #coding=big5 etc.. below is the wrong encoding output .. any help will be much appreciated.. *** ldap://2134.localhost.com:389 - SimpleLDAPObject.set_option ((17, 3),{}) CN=江,OU=2134,DC=localhost,DC=com {'accountExpires': ['9223372036854775807'], 'badPasswordTime': ['128566014672343750'], 'badPwdCount': ['0'], 'cn': ['\xe6\xb1\x9f\xe6\x9f\x8f\xe5\xa3\x95'], 'codePage': ['0'], 'company': ['\xe8\x8f\xaf\xe8\x81\xaf\xe7\x94\x9f \xe7\x89\xa9\xe7\xa7\x91\xe6\x8a\x80'], 'countryCode': ['0'], 'department': ['\xe7\x94\x9f\xe7\x89\xa9\xe7\xa7\x91\xe6\x8a \x80\xe8\x99\x95'], 'displayName': ['\xe6\xb1\x9f\xe6\x9f\x8f\xe5\xa3\x95'], 'distinguishedName': ['CN=\xe6\xb1\x9f\xe6\x9f\x8f \xe5\xa3\x95,OU=300\xe7\xa7\x91\xe6\x8a \x80\xe8\x99\x95,DC=localhost,DC=com'], 'givenName': ['\xe6\x9f\x8f\xe5\xa3\x95'], 'homeMDB': ['CN=\xe4\xbf\xa1\xe7\xae\xb1\xe5\x84\xb2\xe5\xad \x98\xe5\x8d\x80 (MAIL),CN=\xe9\xa0\x90\xe8\xa8\xad\xe5\x84\xb2\xe5\xad \x98\xe7\xbe\xa4\xe7\xb5\x84,CN=InformationStore,CN=MAIL,CN=Servers,CN= \xe9\xa0\x90\xe8\xa8\xad\xe7\xb3\xbb\xe7\xb5\xb1\xe7\xae \xa1\xe7\x90\x86\xe7\xbe\xa4\xe7\xb5\x84,CN=Administrative Groups,CN=localhost,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=localhost,DC=com'], 'homeMTA': ['CN=Microsoft MTA,CN=MAIL,CN=Servers,CN= \xe9\xa0\x90\xe8\xa8\xad\xe7\xb3\xbb\xe7\xb5\xb1\xe7\xae \xa1\xe7\x90\x86\xe7\xbe\xa4\xe7\xb5\x84,CN=Administrative Groups,CN=localhost,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=localhost,DC=com'], 'instanceType': ['4'], 'lastLogoff': ['0'], 'lastLogon': ['128598965066718750'], 'legacyExchangeDN': ['/o=localhost/ou=ExchangAdmin/cn=Recipients/ cn=joechiang'], 'logonCount': ['33'], 'mDBUseDefaults': ['TRUE'], 'mail': ['[EMAIL PROTECTED]'], 'mailNickname': ['joechiang'], 'memberOf': ['CN=AllHQStaff,CN=Users,DC=localhost,DC=com'], 'msExchALObjectVersion': ['60'], 'msExchHomeServerName': ['/o=localhost/ou=ExchangAdmin/ cn=Configuration/cn=Servers/cn=MAIL'], 'msExchMailboxGuid': ['2\x04\x116^\xfc%J\x87yi\xbdj^\x1bl'], 'msExchMailboxSecurityDescriptor': ['\x01\x00\x04\x80x \x00\x00\x00\x94\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x14\x00\x00\x00\x04\x00d \x00\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x02\x14\x00\x03\x00\x02\x00\x01\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x05\n \x00\x00\x00a\x00n\x00x\x00/\x00C\x00N\x00=\x00C\x00o\x00n\x00f\x00i \x00g\x00u\x00r\x00a\x00t\x00i\x00o\x00n \x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x01\x05\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x05\x15\x00\x00\x00\xd6\xb2i \x1a^\xa7P\xcb\xday \x88\xa9\xf4\x01\x00\x00\x01\x05\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x05\x15\x00\x00\x00\xd6\xb2i \x1a^\xa7P\xcb\xday\x88\xa9\xf4\x01\x00\x00'], 'msExchPoliciesIncluded': ['{C96E41C5-C5D5-411B-8672-1A3B6602437F}, {3B6813EC-CE89-42BA-9442-D87D4AA30DBC}', '{C96E41C5-C5D5-411B-8672-1A3B6602437F}, {26491CFC-9E50-4857-861B-0CB8DF22B5D7}'], 'msExchUserAccountControl': ['0'], 'name': ['\xe6\xb1\x9f\xe6\x9f\x8f\xe5\xa3\x95'], 'objectCategory': ['CN=Person,CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=localhost,DC=com'], 'objectClass': ['top', 'person', 'organizationalPerson', 'user'], 'objectGUID': ['\x13\xfa\xc2\xbb\x9e\xee|C\x9d\xa8_\xea]\xef \xc6\x90'], 'objectSid': ['\x01\x05\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x05\x15\x00\x00\x00\xd6\xb2i\x1a^\xa7P \xcb\xday\x88\xa9u\x0c\x00\x00'], 'primaryGroupID': ['513'], 'proxyAddresses': ['X400:c=TW;a= ;p=localhost;o=Exchange;s=joechiang;', 'SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]'], 'pwdLastSet': ['128587670396562500'], 'sAMAccountName': ['joechiang'], 'sAMAccountType': ['805306368'], 'showInAddressBook': ['CN=\xe5\x85\xa8\xe5\x9f\x9f\xe9\x80\x9a \xe8\xa8\x8a\xe6\xb8\x85\xe5\x96\xae,CN=All Global Address Lists,CN=Address Lists Container,CN=localhost,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=localhost,DC=com', 'CN=\xe7\x87\x9f\xe9\x81\x8b\xe8\x99\x95,CN=All Address Lists,CN=Address Lists Container,CN=localhost,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=localhost,DC=com', 'CN=\xe7\x94\x9f\xe7\x89\xa9\xe7\xa7\x91\xe6\x8a \x80\xe8\x99\x95,CN=All Address Lists,CN=Address Lists Container,CN=localhost,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=localhost,DC=com', 'CN=\xe6\x89\x80\xe6\x9c\x89\xe4\xbd\xbf \xe7\x94\xa8\xe8\x80\x85,CN=All Address Lists,CN=Address Lists Container,CN=localhost,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=localhost,DC=com'], 'sn': ['\xe6\xb1\x9f'], 'textEncodedORAddress': ['c=TW;a= ;p=localhost;o=Exchange;s=joechiang;'], 'uSNChanged': ['22943844'], 'uSNCreated': ['21991450'], 'userAccountControl': ['66048'], 'userPrincipalName': ['[EMAIL PROTECTED]'], 'whenChanged': ['20080624074423.0Z'], 'whenCreated': ['20071205035154.0Z']} None -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list