Re: International Characters

[Christoph N. <en...@ap...>]

On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Knut Sander wrote:

> > I chose the directoryString (UTF-8 format) type since it should allow t=
he
> > international characters.  However, when I try to insert the string 'im
> > k=3DE4ppele 8' I get the error:
> >=20
> > apuhomestreet: value #0 contains invalid data
>=20
> Hi Christoph,
>=20
> did you encode your data as UTF8-string? The 0xe4 above (=E4 =3D ae) look=
s
> like you try to add a latin1 string, but this is not a legal UTF8 byte
> sequence.

Hm...that seems to be correct.  I checked the output from the "debug". =20
This is the string I am sending to the server:
0040 04 13:  STRING =3D 'apuhomestreet'
004F 31 14:  SET {
0051 04 12:    STRING
0053      :      69 6D 20 6B E4 70 70 65 6C 65 20 38 __ __ __ __ im k.ppele=
 8
005F      :  }

Any recommendation on which encoding I should user in LDAP to support
international characters?  Is UTF8 really the way to go?

If UTF8 is the way to go, how should I go about converting data that is=20
in iso-8859-1 to UTF8?  A quick search on CPAN turned up
"Unicode::MapUTF8" and "use utf8" pragma in perl 5.7.  Anyone have
experience with either of these?

Also, where might I find good documentation on how these character sets
are defined?

Thanks for all the help and insight.

- Christoph