Re: International Characters

[Knut S. <knu...@se...>]

> Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 19:21:40 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Christoph Neumann <en...@ap...>
> To: LDAP Mailing List <per...@li...>
> Subject: International Characters
 
> I chose the directoryString (UTF-8 format) type since it should allow the
> international characters.  However, when I try to insert the string 'im
> k=E4ppele 8' I get the error:
> 
> apuhomestreet: value #0 contains invalid data

Hi Christoph,

did you encode your data as UTF8-string? The 0xe4 above (ä = ae) looks
like you try to add a latin1 string, but this is not a legal UTF8 byte
sequence.

I also had this problem with OpenLDAP 2.x but not with Netscape or
ControlData. It looks to me, that it depends on the schema, ControlData
(real X.500) defines attributes with more then on legal encoding (T.61,
latin1, UTF8) and prefixes it with '{<encoding>}' like passwords. The
server tries to determine the right encoding if it is not supplied, and
falls back to T.61 if it is not clear. I don't know if this is conform
to any LDAP-spec.

-Knut

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