Re: [Fwd] character encoding in LDAP

[Chris R. <chr...@me...>]

Graham Barr <gb...@po...> wrote:
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> 
> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 08:42:05 +0200
> To: gb...@po...
> From: jan...@ct...
> Subject: character encoding in LDAP
> 
> Hello,
> I have one question for you. Is it possible to store attribute values to 
> LDAP Directory in T.64 encoding (characters with diacritic)? I have tried 
> it but with your ldap mudules stored them to ldap server not correctly. 
> Where is a problem?
> 
> Jack T.

You mean T.61.

The Net::LDAP modules do not do anything smart with the strings you pass in
as attribute values - they get sent to the LDAP server as-is.

However you may find your LDAP server does not support the T.61 character
set, and instead it will use ISO 8859-1. Such an LDAP server is
non-compliant with RFC 1778.

I would advise using LDAPv3 instead, as there is much better support for
UTF-8 in LDAPv3 servers.

Cheers,

Chris