Freeradius Name field utf-8 support

[n3tg33k]

Hello,

I did some simple changes on freeradius.xml  gui like adding a new field called "Name" ($varuserfirstname) for First name and Last name of the user and it's working but I need to save UTF-8 characters on the name field but it do not submit and save the utf-8 (Arabic) characters. and it goes blank.

I read this https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/2227
and tried to do some changes with utf8_encode in freeradius.inc, I added ($varuserfirstname = utf8_encode($users['varuserfirstname']);) but still no hope.

Is there any idea on how can I fix this issue and what file to look for.

Thanks

[n3tg33k]

I imported the config with utf8 text in config.xml (the freeradius account part) and restarted the box to see how it call the accounts in the frontend, after the boot up i get this error in the console:

Fatal error: cannot create reference to/from string offsets nor overloaded objects in /etc/inc/xmlparse.inc on line 69

pfsense can't retrieve utf8 in xml so this is lines 60-70 on xmlparse.inc

function startElement($parser, $name, $attrs) {
global $parsedcfg, $depth, $curpath, $havedata, $listtags;

array_push($curpath, strtolower($name));

$ptr =& $parsedcfg;
foreach ($curpath as $path) {
$ptr =& $ptr[$path];
}

there is already a strtolower function, we need to implement a utf8 encoder too.

[n3tg33k]

woohoo! :) I changed xmlparse.inc at line 65 and it working!

line 65: file xmlparse.inc

before:
array_push($curpath, strtolower($name));

after:
array_push($curpath, utf8_encode(strtolower($name)));