[thelist] IIS - Non-English Users

Flavia Silveira-Tarzwell (FayeC) fayec at canada.com
Wed Aug 8 12:54:09 CDT 2001


or if he is using windows he can add a second language to the keyboard
and then just switch to english when he is typing that...
To switch all he has to do is use the Shift+alt keys...and after adding
the language to the keyboard it will be there for when he needs it
again...


John Handelaar wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org
> > [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Andy Waite
> > Sent: 08 August 2001 11:06
> > To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> > Subject: [thelist] IIS - Non-English Users
> >
> > I'm working on an extranet site written in ASP running on IIS
> > (NT4). We had
> > a user try log in from Turkey with 'testadmin' as his NT User ID using
> > MSIE5. He could not login (authentication error), even though it
> > was working
> > fine for everyone else. We looked the event logs and found this:
> >
> > Event message could not be found, but contained these strings: testadmýn,
> > DEMONSTRATE, 2, IIS, MICROSOFT_AUTHENTICATION_PACKAGE_V1_0, DEMONSTRATE
> >
> > (in case this doesn't come through correctly, the i in admin is coming
> > through as a y with a accent on it).
> >
> > This looks like some kind of character set or locale issue but we have no
> > idea how to fix it. Has anyone came across this kind of thing before?
> 
> The guy's keyboard is sending the ý character.  Get him to use charmap
> to enter the right character (or change your test username to testadm -
> doesn't look like anyone'd have a problem with that).
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