International character encoding (ITS#1020)

[smith@compound.se]

Full_Name: Björn Smith
Version: openldap-1.2.9
OS: Linux Redhat 6.2
URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
Submission from: (NULL) (193.12.201.1)


When accessing our slapd address book from Netscape Communicator, it expects
characters
above hex value 0x7f to be encoded 0xc3+0xa5 (for scandinavian aring, å).
I dont know much about ldap but I've looked through the code and found this
type
of encoding in the source of openldap.

After dumping TCP packets on port 389 I found out that the slapd server works
with
standard ISO8859-1 character set without any encoding of scandinavian
characters
like åäöÅÄÖ (hope those came out ok), while Netscape expects the encoding
mentioned
above on both queries and seach results.

Now to my question: Could someone point out to me where in the code i could
add/enable such an encoding behaviour in the input/output from slapd?
Or, is there some compiling/configuration option to enable this?

Many thanks in advance for any kind of help!

Regards,
Björn Smith <smith@compound.se>