Bug 18065

Summary: Initials are not generated correctly by LDAP when firstname or surname start with umlauts
Product: Koha Reporter: Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer>
Component: AuthenticationAssignee: Bugs List <koha-bugs>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Testopia <testopia>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P5 - low CC: dpavlin, gmcharlt, kyle.m.hall
Version: Main   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Katrin Fischer 2017-02-06 16:54:44 UTC
When patrons are added via LDAP, borrowers.initials is automatically set to the first letters of firstname and surname.

This fails, if one of those starts with an Umlaut (ÖÜÄ) and possible other diacritic characters.