Re: Problem with directoryString attribute type

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

 From CHANGES:
  OpenLDAP 2.0.7 Release
    Fixed -lldap UTF-8 bug (ITS#860)

Use UTF-8!
        Kurt

At 07:05 AM 4/19/01, Pierre-Julien Grizel wrote:


>Hi there,
>
>I've got an attribute of type directoryString (1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.15).
>Some of my data contains ASCII character #233 ('é'). Everything worked fine
>until I switched to 2.0.7 slapd version... Now if I try to upload data with #233
>inside, I've got an API error : INVALID SYNTAX.
>
>
>I can get stick to the 2.0.6 version - it's not a problem for me not to update.
>But I'd like to know why is the UTF-8 strings support different in the 2.0.7
>version... I found nothing of interest in the issue tracking form nor in the
>CHANGES.TXT file.
>
>
>Using 2.0.7 on FreeBSD 4.x.
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>Any clues ?...
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>Thanks,
>
>
>P.-J.
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