Special characters in name attributes are decoded as replacement characters.

[bramcordie]

The attributes common name, surname and given name can contain special characters (eg: ô, é, ë) but are lost when converted to a replacement character because an utf8_decode is applied.

[rmoreas]

When your app is using UTF-8 character encoding the utf8_decode shouldn't be applied. It's only needed when using ISO-8859-1 character encoding. Any suggestions how to support multiple character encodings?

[bramcordie]

It would be nice to make the attribute definitions in the Shibbolth service configurable in the config.yml of the app. I'm going to start out with circumventing the utf decode first and see how far I can get.