Re: $entry->update with utf8 strings

[Graham B. <gb...@po...>]

On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 05:32:00PM +0200, HP Doerr wrote:
> hi all
> 
> i've got some problems here with perl-ldap and utf8 strings. if i'm calling update on an Net::LDAP::Entry object with some attributes as utf8 strings, the servers complains about an invalid syntax.
> 
> but a
> $ldap->modify($entry, changes => [ replace => [ attribute => $string ] ] );
> (where $string is the utf8 encoded string)
> works as expected. 

What exactly do you mean by "attributes as utf8 strings" ?

What version of perl are you using ? Are you using 5.8 and passing a scalar
that you know perl has encoded as utf8 ?

I can imagine that may cause an issue, but I am not sure.

Graham.

> as i can see from the sources of LDAP::Entry, the update method does quite the same.
> 
> so does anybody know, what i'm doing wrong here?
> 
> thans, hp
> 
> 
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